Re: gEDA-user: OT: help needed; asymmetric load after rectifier seems to disrupt its working.

2011-06-26 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
and saturates the core so waveforms are not sinusoidal. Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: OT: help needed; asymmetric load after rectifier seems to disrupt its working.

2011-06-21 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
from Vx to ground. If both loads are equal, both rectified curreant are equal and cancel one another. If the loads are different, the imbalance current charges Vx node until both output currents become equal again. To avoid this place a choke between Vx and ground. Wojciech Kazubski

Re: gEDA-user: Broken TO92 footprint

2011-05-22 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
/howExplained.htm This is not good, the user has to remember that A means ECB, B means EBC, F means SDG, K means GAK (for SCR)... . Such suffix is also used for mechanical variant of the package like in TO220AB Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Broken TO92 footprint

2011-05-21 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
think that plain TO92 footprint should have numbered pins for use for MC78Lxx, MC79Lxx regulators, LM35 temperature sensors, etc. Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda

Re: gEDA-user: Attribute Net (without pin assignment) - for Powerand Port Symbols

2011-04-12 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
for special virtual components that do not have footprints. The main problem may be the compatibility with current system. Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: OFF: capacitors for RF power amplifier

2011-04-12 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
. Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

gEDA-user: Gsch2pcb configuration

2010-11-06 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
Hello! Is gsch2pcb reading gafrc or any other config file? I am looking for easy way to configure another location of m4 footprints. I know that gsch2pcb looks for several default locations and there is a commandline option to tell the alternate one, but it has to be typed in each time

Re: gEDA-user: Any outstanding gaf patches?

2010-11-01 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
under certain circumstances. Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Newbie wondering about simulation

2010-10-24 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
, the first letter of the label must be X. It would be nice to have a special atribute spicetype or so to force the spice to use the proper model. Long time ago I proposed this, but it was not implemented in spice-sdb backend. Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda

Re: gEDA-user: graphic conversion of spice netlists

2010-05-30 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
readable shematic if the circuit is not trivial. As an exercise, you can try to extract the schematic from an old PCB (with components soldered) Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: gEDA-user: TL431

2010-02-21 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
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

Re: gEDA-user: TL431

2010-02-20 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
voltage of the transistor. Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Dsub15 HD

2009-11-28 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
often have to tune sizes witch much better accuracy. Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: A component cannot contain another component?

2009-11-01 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
TO39 footprint, a pinout and possibly some other info. Additional layer may add for example order or storage number. The same graphic symbol could be shared for all parts 2N3055, 2N2369, BC107, BC237, BC547, BC847, BF240 ... Wojciech Kazubski

Re: gEDA-user: Barred solder mask in PCB

2009-10-13 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
when the pad is close to sqaure. I cannot see the barring, but if I zoom much using the scroll wheel of the mouse, the soldermask disappears and comes back several times. At even higher zoom strange green areas are visible. (PCB 20081128 built from tarball for i586) Wojciech Kazubski

Re: gEDA-user: gaf install ldconfig needs ldconfig

2009-10-11 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
, displayed at the end of make install, should be ok. Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf devel snapshot 1.5.4-20090830 - fedora testpackages

2009-09-03 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
These gEDA-gaf RPMs will replace your existing fedora geda rpms without breaking anything. Fedora 10 and Fedora 11 can grab these RPMS (both 32bit and 64 bit nodes) from http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/gEDA/ or yum install gEDA-gaf --enablerepo=gedatest if you have paste the following

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf devel snapshot 1.5.4-20090830 - fedoratestpackages

2009-09-03 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Wojciech Kazubskiw...@o2.pl wrote: Why libgeda and libgeda-devel packages have old style version number (20090830) instead of new 1.5.4? Wojciech I did a mistake in the past and now I'm paying the price :) Well the mistake was that before gEDA's

Re: gEDA-user: PCB polygon troubles

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
in the setting menu. That's why. Select all the lines and do :ClrFlag(Selected,Join) j key toggles poligon join flag for the line segment pointed by the cursor. Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http

Re: gEDA-user: boards: three more usb-gpio pods

2009-04-21 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
!). The artwork was then copied to natural size negative by a huge camera. The minimum line width that time was about 0,5-0,6mm (20-24mils). Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: gEDA-user: single-sided boards

2009-02-28 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
board - just a double sided board with nothing on one side. Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

gEDA-user: PCB drill helper

2009-02-25 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
Hello! PCB has an option to create drill helper when exporting to Postscript files. Is it possible to control the size of the white dot that marks the drill center? Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http

gEDA-user: PCB drill helper

2009-02-25 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
Hello! PCB has an option to create drill helper when exporting to Postscript files. Is it possible to control the size of the white dot that marks the drill center? Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http

Re: gEDA-user: 8 pin SOIC footprint

2009-01-19 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
(wide) at luciani.org (* jcl *) -- You can't create open hardware with closed EDA tools. http://www.luciani.org Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: gedasymbols.org - site down?

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
Hi Were those icicles really pointing up? http://people.redhat.com/dj/ice-storm-2008/img_0321.html Wojciech Kazubski Hi, The Northeast (U.S.) was hit with a major ice storm. IIRC gedasymbols.org is on DJs server which is located in NH. On the news tonight they were saying that some NH

Re: gEDA-user: Two simple questions. Hopefully...

2008-11-15 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
/directory/gafrc It should contain a line like this: ... (component-library ${HOME}/directory/where/the/symbols/are/stored) The gschem searches the libraries starting from the last one, so your private symbol directory should be defined last. Wojciech Kazubski It seems to work except for one

Re: gEDA-user: improve PNG output quality

2008-10-20 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
the vector one (visible on screen), which also may cause some unwanted clipping. In my opinion , the exporter should use specified dpi resolution and variable size for PNG (and other bitmap) format. Default resolution should be 100dpi for good quality. Wojciech Kazubski Why do you include PNG

Re: gEDA-user: Gnetlist -g PCB

2008-06-30 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
of the output transistor. The collector should have pintype oc, but it is legal to connect it directly to positive power supply if the load is provided in emiter circuit. The same apply for emiter pin. Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: Gnetlist -g PCB

2008-06-29 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
numbered 'n1' and 'n2. Wojciech Kazubski I used gnetlist -g PCB and saw the n1 and n2 pin numbers in output.net. I also see pins like n+ and n-. output.net is below. I can post the schematic, if it will help. In pcb, none of the resistors or capacitors are connected with the ratsnest

Re: gEDA-user: Gnetlist -g PCB

2008-06-29 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
On Jun 29, 2008, at 4:49 AM, Wojciech Kazubski wrote: This is a bug in the library. The symbol pot-1.sym should have all pins declared as passive instead of input/output. No, it's a conceptual problem with DRC. It is perfectly reasonable to consider the pins on a pot as inputs

Re: gEDA-user: VDD/VSS net confusion

2008-06-18 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
For reference in case somebody sees this thread in the future: I opened 4017.sym with gschem, edit-show inv text, removed the vss/vdd and added two pins, vdd(pin no 16) and vss (pin no 8). Set the pintype to in. Power supply pins (and GND pins) shoud have pintype set to pwr. Wojciech

Re: gEDA-user: poll: How do you geda?

2008-06-04 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
Wednesday 04 of June 2008 11:55:26 Kai-Martin Knaak napisaƂ(a): I am curious, just how heterogeneous the group of geda users and developers is. So I thought, I'd start this little non-random sample poll in the mailing list: * What OS do you run geda applications on? Fedora 9 (latest) on

Re: gEDA-user: needing --disable-update-mime-database

2008-05-16 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
all configuration. If DESTDIR contains anything then the package is installed to an intermediate location and desktop and mime databases should be updated by package manager during final installation. Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda

Re: gEDA-user: Footprint TQFP100_14 pitch ?

2008-04-24 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
is defined in qfpdj.inc as: ... define(`PKG_QFP_50', `PKG_GENERIC_QFP(`$1',`$2',`$3',`$4',`$5', `50',`28',`20', `80',`0',`$6')') ... here 6th parameter defines pin spacing and is set to 50. Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: gschem: How to overwrite invisible attributes?

2008-03-31 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
an external net= attribute or add/create the suitable power symbol. Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: TQFP with 0.4mm pin pitch??

2008-02-22 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
the footprint with thermal pad available as LQFP128_14_EP. The last number defines pad size in 0.01mm. Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: finding shorts with gschem

2008-02-05 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
lower voltage rating (VDD - VSS to 6V max, VDD - VEE to 10V max). Pinout is the same. Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: could not connect nets gschem/gsch2pcb/pcb

2007-12-22 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
) to a net +5Vd, or b) hint what power symbol to use (74power-1.sym in this case), or c) create a custom power symbol (embedded?) if there is no suitable one available. Wojciech Kazubski On Dec 20, 2007, at 5:47 AM, Klaus Rudolph wrote: Having multiple netnames should not be a problem

Re: gEDA-user: 2 make errors installing gwave

2007-11-30 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
, intended for use with previous releases of gEDA. I wonder if efforts are better spent on adding/improving the analog capabilities of gtkwave instead. -Dan Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi

Re: gEDA-user: Questions on downloading and installing gnuc ap and gwave

2007-11-24 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
Look into config.log file generated by configure script. This file may contain the hint, what is really going on. Wojciech Kazubski And the fun continues... I have gtk+-devel gtk2-devel glibc-devel guile-devel gettext-devel flex bison make gcc gcc-c++ I then tried

Re: gEDA-user: Enlarged footprints for hand soldering -- na me conventions

2007-11-20 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
(hand soldering, wave, heat transfer etc.) while transfering the design from gschem to pcb. Wojciech Kazubski some footprint outlines suggested by manufactures are only useful for automatic hot air soldering (ie. DFN14 of LTC4088 from Linear). For hand soldering extended pads are necessary

Re: gEDA-user: Poll: Appropriate version of GTK for gEDA users?

2007-11-19 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0 2.12.1 On Fedora 8 (just upraded) Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: OpAmp with internally connected pins

2007-11-02 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
VCC net from TTLs and VDD from CMOSes to +5Vd or so if user wants this. Recently I had some problems with connecting VSS power supply of 4000 series CMOS chips to the ground net named GND. Simply connecting two power symbol to ground doesn't work. Wojciech Kazubski

Re: gEDA-user: newbie, couple of Q's about gschem

2007-10-15 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
defaults for gschem by placing following lines in ${HOME}/.gEDA/gschemrc file: (define default-titleblock title-A4.sym) (net-style thin) (pin-style thin) This set the proper paper size and forces lines on schematic to be thinner. Wojciech Kazubski

Re: gEDA-user: newbie, couple of Q's about gschem

2007-10-13 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
-20060905.tar.gz The symbols are about the same size as in other schematic capture programs. Complaint #3, and minor, is that the printout is BW. Even when fed to a color capable printer. This is controlled by geda-gschemrc lines (output-color disabled) ;(output-color enabled) Wojciech Kazubski

Re: gEDA-user: wrong pinout lm7912 symbol

2007-09-12 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 13:59 -0400, Ales Hvezda wrote: If someone thinks the attached symbol is ok, I'm pushing it to the repo. How do you know that this pinout is correct? What other packages does an lm7912 come in other than TO-220? There isn't a footprint= attribute in the

Re: gEDA-user: package library, or include in schematic

2007-09-03 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
You can also try garchive program. It should create an archive containing all given schematics and a library of symbols used in them. Wojciech Kazubski Look at the gschlas program I tried this with gschlas, but each component got an extra refdes attribute (in red) with R? U? etc

Re: gEDA-user: Clearing vias (Was: Last code sprint's IRC log and pictures)

2007-08-25 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
... Thats right. Whenever I work with Protel, I begin a new file about every two hours as file corruption happens sometimes. But it's M$ Windoze software :) Somewhat OT, BTW. Today a polish newspaper said, that the new train launched yesterday for the route between Warsaw and Lodz had

Re: gEDA-user: Length of pins in gschem symbols.

2007-08-18 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
I use short 0.1 pins on the components that have no visible pin numbers (mainly discretes). Wojciech Kazubski What is the intention of the recommended length of pins? Consistency, I'm guessing. It also gives you room to put the pin numbers

Re: gEDA-user: Omega and mu characters not appearing in PS output

2007-07-26 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
? ---(kaimartin)--- Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Metric PCB footprints using 1mil grid

2007-07-23 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
For m4 parts, look for those that have dimensions (especially pin spacing) specified by big numbers and then divided by 100 or 1000. This significantly reduces the accumuluation of pin spacing errors. M4 has integer arithmetics, so the resulting pin positions are rounded to 1mil. Wojciech

Re: gEDA-user: Metric PCB footprints using 1mil grid

2007-07-23 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
I propose to split old (m4) libraries into separate package. Then noone would be forced to have them and anyone will use only those libraries he wants/needs (maybe better ones?). Wojciech Kazubski Here, we never ever use them. Dumping the low resolution land patterns would encourage

Re: gEDA-user: Metric PCB footprints using 1mil grid

2007-07-23 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
... Here's the COMPLETE list of newlib footprints: 2_pin_thru-hole_packages/0.125W_Carbon_Resistor 2_pin_thru-hole_packages/1W_Carbon_Resistor ... I thought about 3-rd party libraries as jcl. BTW I can try to look into m4 libraries and convert them to new format Wojciech Kazubski

Re: gEDA-user: Metric PCB footprints using 1mil grid

2007-07-23 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
standarization of drills and pad diameters used. Also some internal variables should be changed since common component references are confused with them. Please keep them as m4 for now, though ;-) OK. m4 programing is not very hard. I already have some practice in it. Wojciech Kazubski

Re: gEDA-user: Separate Vcc voltages

2007-07-13 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
on schematic). Wojciech Kazubski On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 08:31:20AM +0200, Jonatan ?kerlind wrote: I've only come up with the solution to edit the 5V IC symbol and remove the Vcc net attribute and attach a Vcc pin instead. Any other (better) solutions? The ultimate solution is to make all

Re: gEDA-user: [pcb] drill helper

2007-05-15 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
off the proper place. Wojciech Kazubski Having made a number of boards at home now, I'm thinking the drill helper could be better. My local copy does this instead: If you check drill helper, all pins are drawn with a much smaller drill hole. I.e. it doesn't draw the normal-sized hole

Re: gEDA-user: Antenna Simulation

2007-04-19 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
Hello! Try xnec2c by Neoklis (Nick) 5B4AZ: http://5b4az.chronos.org.uk/pages/nec2.html Wojciech Kazubski Hi, I'm searching for a graphical editor for antennas that produces input files for NEC (for those that don't know NEC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_Electromagnetics_Code). So

Re: gEDA-user: OFF: OFWK2954 by Siemens

2007-04-01 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
) Also ITME (http://www.itme.edu.pl/PRsurface.htm) makes some equivalents of similar filters (datasheets are in MS Word) SAW filters are now manufactured by EPCOS http://www.epcs.com Wojciech Kazubski Hi list, Could anyone provide me information about the SAW filter produced by Siemens named

Re: gEDA-user: TOP-3 package

2007-03-04 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
Vertically mounted TOP-3 is in geda.inc library as TO247 (another synonim for the same package). This is m4 footprint. Wojciech Kazubski Hi, Local electronics store sells BD249 and BD250 with TOP-3 packages. The datasheets I found on the web say BD249 is SOT-93. I can't find footprints

Re: Re: gEDA-user: gEDA install not detect ing GTK+ on Fedora 6

2007-01-14 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
in by the newer GTK library as it wishes. Use RPMs if you can. Fedora Core 6 currently has gtk2 2.10.4 in updates (and anything needed for it), see http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/ Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: Re: gsch2pcb search order

2006-12-22 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
I propose splitting all pcb libraries into separate tarballs. Then each user may load only the libraries he needs. Those who like M4 (as me) coud use them but it will not make others (who prefer newlib) angry. Wojciech Kazubski Kurt, My system searches for the m4's, but I've changed

Re: gEDA-user: Gschem printing style chang (20060123 to 20060906)

2006-12-04 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
The schematics printed with gschem used to have a very elegant and polished style. Now, after having upgraded to the latest and greatest version, I notice that graphic lines (including component symbols) are much lighter/thinner than nets, thus degrading elegance and readability. The

Re: gEDA-user: Gschem printing style chang (20060123 to 20060906)

2006-12-04 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
.sch]--- v 20061020 1 C 0 2000 0 0 0 title-A.sym ---File end--- or ---File begin [test2.sch]--- v 20061020 1 C 2000 0 0 0 0 title-A.sym ---File end--- Try to print them with default settings. Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: BC547 vs. 2N3904

2006-10-31 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
amplifiers cannot be operated on the frequences as high as in linear mode (class A) with higher DC current. But I think that this may be a problem above VHF band. Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: BC547 vs. 2N3904

2006-10-30 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
or IF) In this case oscillations are at or near operating frequency. Sometimes amplifiers oscillate on LF due to bad supply decoupling. Wojciech Kazubski ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: gEDA-user: Spice Transmission Line Simulation Question

2006-08-07 Thread Wojciech Kazubski
see what I expect up to about 18mHz and then it oscillates. What am I doing wrong? You can try to use qucs instead of spice. This is a real RF/microwave simulator. I also had problems with simulating transmission lines in spice. Wojciech Kazubski