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Subject: 
To all sensor developers, why use voltage drive ?
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Date: 
Fri, 2 Mar 2001 22:18:30 GMT
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Hi,

Why is everyone using a voltage driven cirquit when devolping a RCX sensor-cirquit, while the RCX sense input is in fact a current sensing input ?
Ok, I admit, until short I also copied the schematic everyone is using.
But I now think the current drive cirquit has a number of significant advantages and I can't find any disadvantages (ok 1 transistor more)

1: it's far more linear
2: it uses less power
3: diode-drop has no effect

schematics and measured curves can be seen on

http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~smientki/Lego_Knex/Lego_electronica/Designing_sensors.htm


By the way, why can't I put a link in this message, the server won't accept it ?

Stef Mientki



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  Re: To all sensor developers, why use voltage drive ?
 
(...) Do you actually have a schematic of the RCX? Matthias Jetleb VA3-MWJ (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
  Re: To all sensor developers, why use voltage drive ?
 
Stef Mientki <s.mientki@ids.kun.nl> wrote in message news:3AA01C30.6FFBA7....kun.nl... (...) sensor-cirquit, while the RCX sense input is in fact a current sensing input ? What the RCX measures is voltage. It has a 10k pull up to 5V, but it (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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