Need a circuit! Sinewave Generator

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gmb

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Hi there,

I am a violin maker, and I need a circuit for a signal generator, to test
the resonant frequency of my fronts and backs.

Spec...

Range 20hz to 10Khz
With integral digital frequency counter
Capable of driving a big hefty woofer speaker.

If any of you experts out there could help, I'd be most appreciative.

Many thanks, and kindest regards,
Gordon
 
Gordon posted:

<< I am a violin maker, and I need a circuit for a signal generator, to test
the resonant frequency of my fronts and backs.

Spec...

Range 20hz to 10Khz
With integral digital frequency counter
Capable of driving a big hefty woofer speaker.

(snip)
You aren't going to find an oscillator that can directly drive any speaker very
well.

However, you will find some fairly good function generators such as the B&K
3011B on eBay. They can drive an amp of your choice. Many of them, including
the 3011B, have a frequency counter, and the bonus is that you can sweep a
range of frequencys if you like that method. If you have a scope, you can use
the ramp output of the function generator to drive the horizontal channel so
you can plot frequency to the horizpntal channel and amplitude to the vertical.
It gives you some nice options.

Don
 
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 04:17:38 GMT, "gmb" <gmb@virgin.net> wrote:

Hi there,

I am a violin maker, and I need a circuit for a signal generator, to test
the resonant frequency of my fronts and backs.

Spec...

Range 20hz to 10Khz
With integral digital frequency counter
Capable of driving a big hefty woofer speaker.

If any of you experts out there could help, I'd be most appreciative.

Many thanks, and kindest regards,
Gordon
Click to expand...
Check out my freeware DaqGen software. It uses the
sound card in your computer to provide a complete
low-distortion audio signal generator. Besides pure
sine waves, you can generate much more complex
test signals like narrow bands of noise. You can use
slow frequency sweeps to watch for resonance.

DaqGen is the signal generator portion of the upcoming
Daqarta for Windows, which will be released in a few
months (hopefully!). Daqarta will also allow you view the
response to the generated signal, so you could have
the entire resonance analysis in one view, automatically.

Best regards,


Bob Masta
dqatechATdaqartaDOTcom

D A Q A R T A
Data AcQuisition And Real-Time Analysis
www.daqarta.com
 
Bob Masta wrote:

Check out my freeware DaqGen software.
Click to expand...
Bob,

Can you indicate how the Windows versions is coming along? (Or, can
the DOS version run on Windows XP?)

Thanks and regards,

Mark
 
"Bob Masta" <NoSpam@daqarta.com> wrote in message
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On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 04:17:38 GMT, "gmb" <gmb@virgin.net> wrote:

Hi there,

I am a violin maker, and I need a circuit for a signal generator, to test
the resonant frequency of my fronts and backs.

Spec...

Range 20hz to 10Khz
With integral digital frequency counter
Capable of driving a big hefty woofer speaker.

If any of you experts out there could help, I'd be most appreciative.

Many thanks, and kindest regards,
Gordon


Check out my freeware DaqGen software. It uses the
sound card in your computer to provide a complete
low-distortion audio signal generator. Besides pure
sine waves, you can generate much more complex
test signals like narrow bands of noise. You can use
slow frequency sweeps to watch for resonance.

DaqGen is the signal generator portion of the upcoming
Daqarta for Windows, which will be released in a few
months (hopefully!). Daqarta will also allow you view the
response to the generated signal, so you could have
the entire resonance analysis in one view, automatically.

Best regards,

Bob Masta
dqatechATdaqartaDOTcom
Click to expand...
The software mentioned above is capable of rather complex outputs, patterns,
and is as good/better than commercial (read: $$$) offerings I've looked at.

Well worth a look if you need that sort of thing.

Louis--
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On 27 Dec 2004 15:28:03 -0800, redbelly98@yahoo.com wrote:

Bob Masta wrote:

Check out my freeware DaqGen software.

Bob,

Can you indicate how the Windows versions is coming along? (Or, can
the DOS version run on Windows XP?)
Click to expand...
DaqGen is a Windows-only signal generator program that
has been available for about a year. It will run fine on XP.

Daqarta does signal acquisition/analysis as well as signal
generation.

Daqarta for Windows does will hopefully be ready in a few months,
and will run on any Win9x, NT, 2K, XP etc platform.

Daqarta for DOS will only run on Win9x or earlier because
it needs real-mode DOS. But the biggest problem is that
there is no such thing as a standard DOS sound card driver,
so I have had to write custom drivers for each card
supported. Since Creative Labs dropped all pretense of
supporting developers for anything beyond ISA bus,
that's where I quit. So Daqarta for DOS requires an
ISA-bus Sound Blaster. (Or one of a huge family of
legacy ISA-bus lab-type data acquisition boards, or
a simple 8-bit "board" you can build yourself.)

I'll post a note here when Daqarta for Windows is ready.

Best regards,


Bob Masta
dqatechATdaqartaDOTcom

D A Q A R T A
Data AcQuisition And Real-Time Analysis
www.daqarta.com
 
Hi, and thank you all for your information and suggestions. I eagerly await
the full version of the software, which no doubt will be extremely useful
for analysing the sound/respose of finished violins.

Unfortunatley, the 'kit' I need is for my workshop (no computers there).
Basically, it will be a worktop with a woofer set into it, and the violin
belly or back supported at nodal points above it. Sprinkled with the fine
grains of tea from a tea-bag, when cranked up to resonant frequency (with
quite high amplitude), the plate vibrates and the tea grains form 'Chladni'
patterns on the plate - it's really the only way there is to determine
symmetry of vibration across the plates.

Many thanks,
Gordon


"gmb" <gmb@virgin.net> wrote in message
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Hi there,

I am a violin maker, and I need a circuit for a signal generator, to test
the resonant frequency of my fronts and backs.

Spec...

Range 20hz to 10Khz
With integral digital frequency counter
Capable of driving a big hefty woofer speaker.

If any of you experts out there could help, I'd be most appreciative.

Many thanks, and kindest regards,
Gordon
Click to expand...
 
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:45:08 GMT, "gmb" <gmb@virgin.net> wrote:

Hi, and thank you all for your information and suggestions. I eagerly await
the full version of the software, which no doubt will be extremely useful
for analysing the sound/respose of finished violins.

Unfortunatley, the 'kit' I need is for my workshop (no computers there).
Basically, it will be a worktop with a woofer set into it, and the violin
belly or back supported at nodal points above it. Sprinkled with the fine
grains of tea from a tea-bag, when cranked up to resonant frequency (with
quite high amplitude), the plate vibrates and the tea grains form 'Chladni'
patterns on the plate - it's really the only way there is to determine
symmetry of vibration across the plates.
Click to expand...
You may want to consider getting an old "junker"
computer to keep in the shop, and run Daqarta for DOS
on it. You can pick these up really cheap, if not for free,
and the only hitch is finding a compatible sound card.
Note that the LPTX driver module contains complete
instructions for a super-simple 8-bit D/A that plugs
into the printer port... just a handful of resistors. It
will be roughly comparable to a lab-type function
generator as far as distortion goes... around 1%.
It would be just fine for this application, in the event
that you can't locate a Sound Blaster or other supported card.

If you can find an ISA-bus Sound Blaster, then the
Daqarta analysis functions will be really handy as well.

Best regards,





Bob Masta
dqatechATdaqartaDOTcom

D A Q A R T A
Data AcQuisition And Real-Time Analysis
www.daqarta.com
 
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