Posts by deltaydeltax

NI Multisim I give a thumbs down. It was a good tool when it was Electronics Workbench. NI bought it and ruined it.   LTSpice is used by everyone I work with. One person even uses TI Tina. Tina is a little clunky, and I don't...

I myself might go with an AC transformer, create a full-wave bridge rectifier circuit, use two larger electrolytic caps, two smaller value ceramics, and add two voltage indicating LEDs.

I've used the ST50 and TD-100 pencil. A nice combination. I had near thirty different tips for the TD-100. I hope you enjoy your new setup.

Another feature I like is the auto off with the digital station. Some analog have it too. It's much easier to look at the display and see a lower temperature due to auto shut-off.

My project ended up not using a digital pot at all. The cost of adding a VCA into the design was too great. For my own circuit, I'd go with a VCA.   I can't ever use a Maxim or Dallas Semiconductor part ever again. They bit...

Analog Devices makes some nice digital pots. I worked on a project many years ago where a digital pot was an option for replaced resistive pots. It was a short lived idea. The digital pots all had problems with "zipper noise" Each...

I have a Pace analog station, and a Pace digital station. I greatly prefer the digital over the analog. The digital has a feature which allows you to set a temperature and lock it so someone else can't come along and change it.

Quote: Originally Posted by tangent    Umm....there's been 10x inflation over the past 3 years, so we can start talking about $5K packages now? The prices of CAD software are amazingly high. I...

I have over ten years experience with Altium tools. First started using Protel in 1998 or so. Then switched over to Mentor Graphics PADS for a year, then to P-CAD. Used P-CAD for ten or so years and finally don't do major PCB layouts...

This has me so confused.Does the Onkyo receiver not have a switch for turning off the speakers? Most other receivers do.