[simpits-tech] New vids!

dabigboy at cox.net dabigboy at cox.net
Thu Mar 29 21:40:50 PDT 2012


---- Gene Buckle <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote: 
> 
> That's one of the reasons I designed the boards - the other is that the 
> Phidget output boards are sink, not source devices.  You can't pull much 
> power through them either or you'll burn 'em up.
> 
> The board is simply 16 driver sets consisting of a pair of resistors, a 
> 2N3904 transistor and a TIP-125 darlington transistor.  The 2N3904 takes 
> a 5v input to turn on the TIP-125.  The board uses two power busses in 
> order to allow you to have two source voltages on the same board if 
> needed.
> 
> I can post the Eagle files if you want them.  I paid $103 about a year ago 
> to have 16 of them made by Gold Phoenix.

I'm interested too.......I don't know much about board design, but I would be happy to send some documentation to a board builder for $100'ish to get enough driver boards for my sim. I am just getting into Arduino with an Uno, It seems the way to go....VERY cheap, and very versatile.

Matt


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