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 11-07-2005, 08:19 Post: 119045
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 Measuring Frequency in a generator

"(provided you have some technical skills)"

jd, technical skills is the operative term here. Let's see, first you have to get the signal down to about 4 volts, then you have to convert from analog to digital. Store that time series. Figure out the bit order that your specific A-D converter puts out so you can make sense of the numbers. Write a fast Fourier transform program unless you have already spent the money on Matlab or some such program. Oh hell, this doesn't have to be fast, a simple discrete FT will work for this one time problem. Then by knowing the frequency of the digital sampling, figure out what frequency the FT'd peak represents.

Jd, I've got to hand it to you, your plan would work. And it would probably be fun. Sounds alot like my job though.
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 11-07-2005, 10:02 Post: 119057
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Peters, maybe I'm living in the past too. I remember doing stuff like this on an intel 286.

Is there a $50 board that comes with the FFT and display software?
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 11-08-2005, 08:22 Post: 119120
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jdc, Its good to know that the tractor board has some expertice in radio frequency engineering.Smile I teach a class in hands-on MRI and today we just happen to be building simple RF receive only coils for the scanner. They'll have to lay out the copper tape in a license plate sized rectangle, and tune them with the proper capacitors to 63.8 MHz. Then they build a blocking network so they don't burn up when they're subjected to the main RF pulses. About half of them have some soldering experience so the end results are sometimes ugly. They always work though, many times better than the factory coils with pretty covers.
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 11-10-2005, 12:55 Post: 119187
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The one you bought should work well. It's also almost half the cost of the cheapest on the other page. I have two cheap analog meters that I use and they've always done everything I needed them for so this one would be a real cadillac for me. Smile The real engineers here might have better feedback for you.
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 11-10-2005, 16:28 Post: 119201
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Metastable, here's one for $69 that measures frequency. There may be cheaper ones.
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