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Gatherings 2008 Gatherings International Horror Film and Music Festival : January 4-6, 2008 ~ Athens Greece 6th Annual Bloody Mary & Crazy Bob's Moonlight...
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Sent this last night but forgot to send as plain text.... Not sure if I had mentioned it, but I do have show pricing in the new store thru Monday for many...
For a number years, I've used one generation or another of PC to monitor sensors and control valves for Halloween and a few other applications. A few years...
... Will be available presently! I'll pas out info to anyone interested, and will put pics, etc. up on the website, once I finish it up. Basically, the input...
We Have a TV Commercial! Eastern Haunters Convention - Check it out! www.EasternHauntersConvention.com I am so excited, I'm beside myself (Looks like that...
Look at the port master in the phots. Use 1 printer port and 240 outputs (first 16 are ignored) Lee [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
... There is a minor real estate issue, but RJ-45s could be fit in. Cost is about the same for the connectors, but RJ-11 cables are cheaper. You *can* plug an...
... Yeah.. well.. sorta.. :) but I wouldn't want to do so by design! The possibility of the pins ending up in the wrong slots is pretty high... Also, remember...
Well, I certainly won't argue with you on run length... (but why doesn't noise disrupt long Ethernet runs? Is it just the error correction, or the way the...
The idea behind twisted pair transmission is a differential signal. One of the wires in the pair gets the signal in the positive form, the other wire gets the...
... Exactly. And in a situation where you are running, for example, a dry contact closure switch at the end of a UTP run, you are using *single* ended...
To help deal with noise, if your situation allows for it, I would also recommend polling your trigger multiple times before actually triggering whatever you...
Hey everyone, In the next year I'm looking to move over to a new CNC machine. The one we're using now is too big for the new facility and is ultimately, WAY...
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... Words of wisdom there, Vern... I'm terminating the inputs with pull-up resistors, partly to guarantee a good "high", and partly to provide a low input...
... OK, I added pads for optional small caps to ground on the inputs. Tossed in a second resistor network (also optional) for a pull-down, while I was at it. ...
We deal with noise all the time at work... Measureing low level signals (100mv) over long runs. We always use shieled twisted pair. The shield is NOT attached...
... Sounds cool. Let us know when/where you post some pics :) Vern -- Vern Graner CNE/CNA/SSE | "If the network is down, then you're Senior Systems Engineer...
... As requested, a progress update, with pictures: <http://thebells.net/Halloween/PLCC/I-O_Board/index.html> The parent page, with links to Kit-74 info: ...
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HHVA/ I am spreading the word within this group since I do know a number of professional within the industry are involved...
From AllElectronics.com: http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/item/SAW-3/100/SAW_3_DIGITAL_VOICE_RECORDER_.html ... SAW 3 DIGITAL VOICE RECORDER Your kids...
I ordered 10 of them. My plan is to record a message about our media night/opening night and send them out to all the local radio stations, etc. as a sort of...