Re: gEDA-user: TL431

2010-02-20 Thread asomers
If you can guarantee that R3 will always drop enough voltage, then you should be fine. But consider what your circuit is going to do on power-up and power-down, and if there will be any voltage spikes. If you don't think your solution will cut it, you could add a zener diode between ground and

Re: gEDA-user: TL431

2010-02-20 Thread phil
gene glick wrote: Anyone use these shunt regulators? I'm wondering about the max voltage. 36V for LM431 ... Data sheet says max cathode-to-anode voltage is 36V. What if VCC = 50 I use these and they're good parts. 50V will blow it up--be careful of turn on, turn off and fault

Re: gEDA-user: TL431

2010-02-20 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
- Anyone use these shunt regulators? I'm wondering about the max voltage. Data sheet says max cathode-to-anode voltage is 36V. What if VCC = 50 V, as in this cheezy drawing is trying to show. R1 and R2 set the output voltage at the emitter. R3 limits the current to the cathode *and*

Re: gEDA-user: TL431

2010-02-20 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:16:20 -0500, gene glick wrote: wow, that drawing didn't look very good in my mail client, but if you cut and paste into kedit it looks reasonable. :) Looks good in my newsreader client :^) There is a little schematic editor for ascii called aacircuit

gEDA-user: Getting new linux, which distribution?

2010-02-20 Thread Rob Butts
Hi all, I'm replacing an old drive and since my distribution of Fedora is so old I'm purchasing a new dvd. Then I thought before I do, since I use it for the geda software, why not get the same distribution most of the geda gurus use. At the risk of starting a major debate

Re: gEDA-user: TL431

2010-02-20 Thread gene glick
Wojciech Kazubski wrote: - Anyone use these shunt regulators? I'm wondering about the max voltage. Or set up your mailer to use a fixed-width font.. Yes, that was it - thanks. I suspect this TL431 isn't a good device for my app. I have an LM317 to give me around +12V for bootstap voltage

Re: gEDA-user: Getting new linux, which distribution?

2010-02-20 Thread Larry Battraw
I had a quick question. I know there are several sparsely-documented plugins for PCB but I am trying to locate the one that makes the traces on the board look like they were laid out by hand the old-fashioned way with tape, resulting in curving, contoured traces instead of the

gEDA-user: PCB plugin for contoured traces?

2010-02-20 Thread Larry Battraw
(Sorry for the double post, I forgot to change the subject line the first time around) I had a quick question. I know there are several sparsely-documented plugins for PCB but I am trying to locate the one that makes the traces on the board look like they were laid out by hand the

gEDA-user: Changing key bindings in PCB

2010-02-20 Thread Larry Battraw
I see in a message here: http://www.mail-archive.com/geda-user@moria.seul.org/msg01523.html that it's supposedly possible to change the key bindings for gschem and pcb from the menus themselves by hovering over the menu option and pressing the keys that you want to associate with the action. I've

Re: gEDA-user: Getting new linux, which distribution?

2010-02-20 Thread Rob Butts
Larry, I couldn't tell you since I never updated geda after installation. On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Larry Battraw [1]lbatt...@gmail.com wrote: I had a quick question. I know there are several sparsely-documented plugins for PCB but I am trying to locate

Re: gEDA-user: PCB plugin for contoured traces?

2010-02-20 Thread Mark Rages
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Larry Battraw lbatt...@gmail.com wrote:   (Sorry for the double post, I forgot to change the subject line the   first time around)   I had a quick question. I know there are several sparsely-documented   plugins for PCB but I am trying to locate the one that

Re: gEDA-user: PCB plugin for contoured traces?

2010-02-20 Thread Jared Casper
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Mark Rages markra...@gmail.com wrote:   I had a quick question. I know there are several sparsely-documented   plugins for PCB but I am trying to locate the one that makes the traces   on the board look like they were laid out by hand the old-fashioned way  

Re: gEDA-user: Changing key bindings in PCB

2010-02-20 Thread Alberto Maccioni
If you're using gtk the file to change is gpcb-menu.res A little confusing and not documented, but it works. Probably the best thing to do would be to have separate sections in the same pcb-menu.res. 2010/2/21 Larry Battraw lbatt...@gmail.com: I see in a message here:

Re: gEDA-user: Changing key bindings in PCB

2010-02-20 Thread Jared Casper
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Larry Battraw lbatt...@gmail.com wrote: that's not documented somewhere?  I tried editing the ~/.pcb-menu.res as well with no changes either. Not sure about the dynamic editing of shortcuts, but for the GTK hid you'll want to edit ~/.pcb/gpcb-menu.res (I