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Dear all, I know little(nothing actually) of infrared heating. But i need to build a machine to solder surface mount electronic components. The purpose is to build a kind of tunnel with quartz infrared elements inside. The board will travel slowly inside the tunnel and the solder paste will be...

Hello, I have some degree of experience in electronics, buy know very little about RF. I have 2 questions if you experts can help me. I have on RF transceiver with 10mW output power and this antenna...

Thanks Dbaird and micalbrch. 300+ Labs in Europe alone!! I have to type a lot... M.

Hello, I'm completly new to CE mark.My company is located in Europe, and I produce several electronic equipment, with maximum supply voltage of 24V DC. It falls under the EMC directive only, so I was told. My questions: Can I test my equipments in a non notified body, and do a self...

Hi All Terminating, biasing and add a ground reference solve completly the problems on my network. The switching power supplies are isolated, so I completly lost my reference (normally given by earth wire). Biasing was also important because the network was picking some noise. I have learn a...

Eagle as lots of libraries. Thats the best is this package. But you can import them to diptrace easy. (if you dont care about copyrights :) Also don't trust Eagle's DRC at 100%. I had to trash some boards a while ago. DRC works, but if you change the board a lot and mix manual and automatic...

Thanks all for the awnsers. Tomorrow I will implement this solution and post the results.

Hi, Check out diptrace also (www.diptrace.com). They have a new version with a good autorouter. Also cheap like eagle. Very easy to learn. Joaquim

Thanks for the awnsers. @Keith The 620 ohm resistors are connected bettewen "A" and Vcc (one) and B and GND (the other). Because when the line is in idle mode (no transmit) is at unknow state. The 2 resistors are bias to make sure the line is at "mark" state. I have read something about this...

Hi experts, I have the following RS485 network setup (2400bps): Slave1 ---1.5Km----Master---300m---Slave2 I know that I must use 120 terminating resistors at both ends. No problem, because the boards have jumpers that can select the terminators. But I must use bias as well (620 ohm resistor...

Well, the prototype is running at a factory floor because is to large fr my small lab :) In the factory floor we have some large metal working machines... Maybe they are the source of noise... The RS485 approach is a good one. Small processor for each board (addressable) and a master controller...

Separate grounds are not possible. I use constant current drivers that use same common ground for logic and power. The only difference is Vcc (5v for logic) and VLED (12V for LEDS). In my prototype sometimes I have one missing pulse causing the matrix to show the chars incorrectly. I had check...

Hi, I'm designing a LED matrix for Outdoor VMS of a considerable size (about 5meters). There are about 16 matrix. From matrix to matrix are traveling signals, like clock, data out, latch enable etc. What is the best circuit to amplify / regenerate signals? And about noise filtering (I did see...

I did what Rodrigo suggested and the problem was less evident... The large capacitor at the end of the power supply leads (at the input terminal of the 7805) solve the problem. Also I have increased the value of the capacitor at the ouput. Now I have a clean VCC at any duty cycle. Learning...

Hi All, I have a problem using (what I considered) a simple circuit. I use a microcontroller that generates a PWM signal that feeds a gate of a N-channel Logic level MOSFET. When I switch the LOAD on and off (without PWM) the 5V (that powers the micro) is perfectly stable. When I use PWM to...