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    Sensor questions —Jonathan Swaby
   I have several sensor questions. I would like to use my miniboard as an engine management system. At the present time, I have a small 2 cycle engine from a weed wacker that I would like to control. I would like to have the miniboard gather some (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
   
        Re: Sensor questions —Sathe Dilip
     (...) SNIP (...) Newark electronics used to sell a humidity sensor based on this principle for about $ 12. It should still be available. I believe it was made by Phillips. Basically the variations in capacitor value is used to vary the frequency of (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
   
        Re: Sensor questions —Curt Mills, WE7U
     (...) Sounds like fun! Go check out the EFI332 (hope I got that right) project. That's a project to build a 68332 board to control a larger engine. They'll probably have pointers to the different types of sensors that can be used with it, some of (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
   
        Re: Sensor questions —Fabian Lopez
     You wrote: I then tried the LM34. There is no calibration pin and it uses farenheit. 1F=10Mv. For some reason, the output from this device varies very little with changes in the room temperature. Now the present room temperature is 58F, during the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
   
        Re: Sensor questions —John Horvath
   (...) The Electronic Surplus Dealer Goldmine, (URL) been selling some weather balloon electronics innards for a few years. On this board there are some relevant sensors: a thermistor, some sort of barometric chip and a humidity "device". The (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
 

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