Build your own VR conditioner
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<p>The quick and dirty version (just how yall like it)</p><p>I'm personally using this for ABS sensors and traction control with megasquirt.</p><p>Steps:</p><p>1. Read this ****</p><p>2. Get the gerber files from this link</p><p>3. Go to OSHPark and get 3 boards made for $5 (share with your friends, you probably only need one board)</p><p>4. Order a bunch of this **** (I ordered 2 extra of everything in case I **** up soldering it all)</p><p><a href="http://imgur.com/tBSx4rZ" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://www.miataturbo.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=146714&dateline=14 39356067" /></a></p><p>5. Learn to surface mount solder.</p><p>6....?</p><p>7. Profit?!?!</p><p>I'll be updating this as I build them. I'll also attach the spreadsheet tomorrow when I get back to my work computer.</p>
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Thats what my research has led me to believe. I think you said something along the lines if the noise rejection defies physics?
I had 3 of those chips built onto DIP conversion boards by some company in canada for pretty cheap for a different project. I think it came out to like $20 per + shipping. Mainly because I really really didnt feel like dealing with a surface mount chip on a protoboard.
Proto Advantage - QSOP-16 to DIP-16 SMT Adapter (0.635 mm / 25 mil pitch)
chose pins and IC assembled from up top, and put in the digikey part number of the chip you want and presto it'll be at your door in like 2 weeks.
chose pins and IC assembled from up top, and put in the digikey part number of the chip you want and presto it'll be at your door in like 2 weeks.
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Proto Advantage - QSOP-16 to DIP-16 SMT Adapter (0.635 mm / 25 mil pitch)
chose pins and IC assembled from up top, and put in the digikey part number of the chip you want and presto it'll be at your door in like 2 weeks.
chose pins and IC assembled from up top, and put in the digikey part number of the chip you want and presto it'll be at your door in like 2 weeks.
Surface-mount isn't hard to do IF you have the right tools and are experienced with general soldering work. A Radio-Shack iron isn't the right tool. In fact, my fancy Weller is just barely adequate even with the expensive tip in it. When I worked at Harris, I took all my surface-mount work into the lab and used the $500 Metcal iron and the Bousch & Lomb stereomicroscope.
Moral: you can do it yourself if you try. But if you can pay someone else $6 to do it for you with the right tools, go that route.
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<p>Nope. If its a diypnp then no.</p><p>Do it. Keep an eye out on ebay and classifieds here. turbofan got his for like 350.</p>
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