PRC as a amplifier in GPS question.

njsldz@163.com wrote:
Sell quickturn production of printed circuit boards(low price).(CHINA)
Hint :
Make the "ENGLISH" button on your website do SOMETHING.
M
 
Phil Allison wrote:

"Chris Jones"


What is now clear to me is that there are so many different types in both
temperature ranges that it would not be surprising if there were some
high and low ESR grades in both ranges and therefore the possibility of
me finding high temperature ones that happen to be from a series which
doesn't
have as good ESR as some of the low temperature grades. The lesson that
I learnt was that I should measure the ESR and not assume any temperature
range are always better.


** Nor falsely assume that temp grade and ESR go hand in hand.
No, if I can measure the ESR instead then it is indeed better not to assume
anything about it.

Therefore in some applications where ESR really
matters e.g. SMPS output, it is possible that after replacing the caps
with
higher temperature types, the thing will not work as well as it would
have done if the 85 degree type had been used, and in the worst case,
the
105 degree caps could heat up more than twice as much as the 85 degree
type, and could exceed 105 degrees in a situation where the 85 degree
caps would have stayed below 85 degrees C.


** You are making this all up as you go along.

Well I have never seen it happen so yes if you like, but certainly a
capacitor with high ESR could be heated quite a bit when subjected to a
few
amps of ripple current.


** Shame how the ESR falls as the electrolyte heats up.
It's not a shame, it's quite handy really, but if the ESR were lower in the
first place then it wouldn't have to heat up.


Electros are not operated at such high temps in SMPSs.

Hopefully not, in a good design, but then I probably wouldn't be trying
to fix it if it had been designed properly.


** You got a diploma in Pure and Applied Guesswork ???
yes.

Or still working on that.



........ Phil
 
"Phil Allison" <philallison@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
news:45oe3eF7gt8bU1@individual.net...
"Simon Templar"

The Healesville Amateur Radio Group is holding it's annual Hamfest at the
Memorial Hall, Maroondah Hwy in Healesville on Sunday 26 Feb 2006.

73 de Simon, VK3XEM.



** Wonder if he looks like Roger Moore.

Must get lots of smiles about that name.



BTW

I have checked and it is for real.





........ Phil
Aww. Come on Phil, the guy's a saint. :))
 
"Jean-Paul Turd" <xyz@atlante.edu> wrote in message
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"Dumb Yank1111" <snip
You are treading on thin ice again Le Turd.
Your disruption of news groups, with your deliberate multi/cross posting,
may force you to yet another ISP
 
Stop responding to the troll

Sunny wrote:
"Jean-Paul Turd" <xyz@atlante.edu> wrote in message
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"Dumb Yank1111" <snip


You are treading on thin ice again Le Turd.
Your disruption of news groups, with your deliberate multi/cross posting,
may force you to yet another ISP
 
"Alan Erskine" <alanerskine1@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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Can anyone speak French? http://www.neuf.fr/home/401.html Where is the
'contact' or 'complaints' page?

--
Alan Erskine
Alanerskine1@bigpond.com


For goodness sake, cant you just ignore?
 
Please stop replying to those responding to you replying to those responding
to the troll

"B J Foster" <bjfoster@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Stop responding to the troll

Mr Black wrote:

"B J Foster" <bjfoster@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Stop responding to the troll


I would love to stop responding to you, but you keep cross posting.

Everyone on these Ng's have tried not responding to him (amongst a
million
other things)...its does not work...the only thing that makes him go away
for a while is his ISP booting him, thus can you please address your
concerns to his ISP and stop your own cross posting and trolling.

MrB

MrB
 
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 10:40:54 GMT, Glenn Pure <glenn*delete_this_for_reply*@evans-pure.net> wrote:

Advice wanted please on a suitable source of interupt for a
micrcontroller that meets the following:

1. Low current consumption (will run for at least 6 months on minimal
battery power)

2. Accurate (to within a few minutes a month)

3. Signal for interupt needed every hour (but could cope with other
intervals, eg evey minute or 10 minutes).

I want to build an unattended microcontroller circuit that will run
from a 6 volt lantern battery or smaller for at least 6 months. Hence,
I'm assuming that a crystal oscillator and clock implemented in
software on the microcontroller won't work for me this time due to
current consumption. I suspect I will need to sleep the
microcontroller (and hence shut down its oscillator) to minimise
current consumption....

however, if I'm wrong on this and there is an accurate low current
oscillator option that will run a PIC, I'd love to hear about that
too.

Cheers
Glenn
Glenn Pure
Canberra, Australia
Web page: http://www.evans-pure.net
Are you fixed on using a pic? The msp430 series from ti are very low power,
and have an optional internal oscillator. It also has several versatile timers that can
generate interrupts. The TI website has examples of using the internal timers as
a RTC.

The PIC10F204 is a 6 pin (sot-23) 100nA sleep current micro.
 
"Terry Given"

** Terry is one of those studious guys who wrote brilliant answers to
every exam questions he faced - but was then marked 1 or 2 out of 10
for them.

Because what Terry wrote did NOT answer the question as posed.

No insight.

At all.



Well done Phil, not a single piece of invective.


** ROTFLMAO !!!!!!


It's a lay down mezzanine.




......... Phil
 
Glenn Pure wrote:
Advice wanted please on a suitable source of interupt for a
micrcontroller that meets the following:

1. Low current consumption (will run for at least 6 months on minimal
battery power)

2. Accurate (to within a few minutes a month)

3. Signal for interupt needed every hour (but could cope with other
intervals, eg evey minute or 10 minutes).

I want to build an unattended microcontroller circuit that will run
from a 6 volt lantern battery or smaller for at least 6 months. Hence,
I'm assuming that a crystal oscillator and clock implemented in
software on the microcontroller won't work for me this time due to
current consumption. I suspect I will need to sleep the
microcontroller (and hence shut down its oscillator) to minimise
current consumption....

however, if I'm wrong on this and there is an accurate low current
oscillator option that will run a PIC, I'd love to hear about that
too.

Cheers
Glenn
Glenn Pure
Canberra, Australia
Web page: http://www.evans-pure.net
Many PICs (or almost any other micro) can meet all your specs with a
32KHz watch crystal which runs continuously and you use a timer to
interrupt and wake up the CPU at the pre-set time interval.
If you don't need fast processing then use the 32KHz clock to do your
processing too, and you may not even need to switch to sleep mode
depending on your battery size.
Otherwise have a faster 4MHz internal oscillator switch on at the
interrupt, do any processing needed and then shut down again.
This is all PIC-101 stuff and is explained in many app notes etc.

Dave :)
 
"Glenn Pure" <glenn*delete_this_for_reply*@evans-pure.net> wrote in
message news:75igv1d93emvclu789i9ih9jfe3psj738a@4ax.com...
Advice wanted please on a suitable source of interupt for a
micrcontroller that meets the following:

1. Low current consumption (will run for at least 6 months on minimal
battery power)
Any nanowatt PIC should do.

2. Accurate (to within a few minutes a month)
Use a watch crystal to run it.

3. Signal for interupt needed every hour (but could cope with other
intervals, eg evey minute or 10 minutes).

I want to build an unattended microcontroller circuit that will run
from a 6 volt lantern battery or smaller for at least 6 months. Hence,
I'm assuming that a crystal oscillator and clock implemented in
software on the microcontroller won't work for me this time due to
current consumption. I suspect I will need to sleep the
microcontroller (and hence shut down its oscillator) to minimise
current consumption....

however, if I'm wrong on this and there is an accurate low current
oscillator option that will run a PIC, I'd love to hear about that
too.
A PIC 12F683 uses something like 18uA typical running at 32kHz on 3V and
only 9uA typical at 2V. As long as you can live without the BOD
(brownout) and WDT (watchdog) that should be it on the current
requirements without sleeping. Sleeping and using a watch crystal
connected to T1OSC could save you maybe 50% off that on the power.
Probably not really worth the extra effort, unless you want to be able
to wake up and crank the CPU speed up to 8MHz.

A lantern battery won't be necessary, a couple of AA batteries should
easily last for years even running continuously.
 
Terry Given wrote:

Chris Jones wrote:
Phil Allison wrote:


"Chris Jones"


I found that
the 105 degree caps seem to have a significantly higher ESR than 85
degree C ones, so I have stopped my habit of automatically fitting the
105 degree...

a lot depends on what frequency the ESR is measured at. It varies
significantly with frequency. Michael Gaspari wrote a great paper in IEE
trans. Industry applications, vol.41 no.6 nov/dec 2005, pp1430-1435.

his cap model is:

---[Ro]---[R1]---+----[R2]----+----[C1]----
| |
+----[C2]----+

R0 = resistance of foil, tabs & terminals
R1 = resistance of electrolyte
R2 = dielectric loss resistance
C1 = terminal capacitance
C2 = dielectric loss capacitance


R2 and C2 give a large variation in ESR with frequency. typically the
effect of R2,C2 peters out above 10kHz, so you can take the ESR at
100kHz as the combined value of R0 and R1. this can be seen from the
ripple current multiplier tables a decent cap data sheet has.

R0+R1 = ESR @ 100kHz

R2 = ESR @ 100Hz - (Ro + R1)

and pick C2 to get the right values for ESRs in the 100H - 10kHz range

the reason the ripple current varies with temperature is the loss in the
cap is kept constant (for a given lifetime) so lower ESR means more
current. you can thus translate a ripple-current multiplier table (eg
see LXZ cap datasheet in linked PDF) into an ESR multiplier.

ESR_multiplier = 1/(ripple_multiplier)^2

the LXZ table for 220uF - 560uF caps is:

120Hz 1kHz 10kHz 100kHz
0.5 0.85 0.94 1.00

so the ESR multiplier is:

4 1.4 1.13 1


these caps have 4x the ESR at 100Hz. hardly surprising, they are
designed for smps, so have low ESR at 100kHz.


ESR variation with temperature is due to the increased conductivity of
the electrolyte.

R1(T) = R1o*exp[(To-Tcore)/E]

R1o = ESR at temperature To

E = temperature sensitivity factor

R1 is usually 5x Ro, and you can calculate E from the two ESR
measurements (-10C, 20C) for a given cap family.


[snip]

Cheers
Terry

Thanks, I found that interesting.
Chris
 
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I wished to share a solution to the problems your are having with the
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enterprise. You solve the problem by taking all of your nation's
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Sir,

Please do not waste your time about helping the australasian Toads and the
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probably on top of it the most vilifying comments on the part of that
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That Plague of Cane Toads is further a well deserve Collective Punishment
for the Toadland for a well documented Collective Crime, and although the
solution to such is a most easy one ( I feud a most elegant & free solution
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those who do them good, is to push them to the gutter, give credit to
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--
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Founder of the True Geology

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~~ Ignorance Is The Cosmic Sin, The One Never Forgiven ~~
 
Chris Jones wrote:
Terry Given wrote:


Chris Jones wrote:

Phil Allison wrote:



"Chris Jones"



I found that
the 105 degree caps seem to have a significantly higher ESR than 85
degree C ones, so I have stopped my habit of automatically fitting the
105 degree...

a lot depends on what frequency the ESR is measured at. It varies
significantly with frequency. Michael Gaspari wrote a great paper in IEE
trans. Industry applications, vol.41 no.6 nov/dec 2005, pp1430-1435.

his cap model is:

---[Ro]---[R1]---+----[R2]----+----[C1]----
| |
+----[C2]----+

R0 = resistance of foil, tabs & terminals
R1 = resistance of electrolyte
R2 = dielectric loss resistance
C1 = terminal capacitance
C2 = dielectric loss capacitance


R2 and C2 give a large variation in ESR with frequency. typically the
effect of R2,C2 peters out above 10kHz, so you can take the ESR at
100kHz as the combined value of R0 and R1. this can be seen from the
ripple current multiplier tables a decent cap data sheet has.

R0+R1 = ESR @ 100kHz

R2 = ESR @ 100Hz - (Ro + R1)

and pick C2 to get the right values for ESRs in the 100H - 10kHz range

the reason the ripple current varies with temperature is the loss in the
cap is kept constant (for a given lifetime) so lower ESR means more
current. you can thus translate a ripple-current multiplier table (eg
see LXZ cap datasheet in linked PDF) into an ESR multiplier.

ESR_multiplier = 1/(ripple_multiplier)^2

the LXZ table for 220uF - 560uF caps is:

120Hz 1kHz 10kHz 100kHz
0.5 0.85 0.94 1.00

so the ESR multiplier is:

4 1.4 1.13 1


these caps have 4x the ESR at 100Hz. hardly surprising, they are
designed for smps, so have low ESR at 100kHz.


ESR variation with temperature is due to the increased conductivity of
the electrolyte.

R1(T) = R1o*exp[(To-Tcore)/E]

R1o = ESR at temperature To

E = temperature sensitivity factor

R1 is usually 5x Ro, and you can calculate E from the two ESR
measurements (-10C, 20C) for a given cap family.



[snip]

Cheers
Terry



Thanks, I found that interesting.
Chris
no worries. I should have given a summary though: its pretty darned
important to know what frequency ESR is measured at. Also caps designed
for large amounts of 100/120Hz ripple are different from those designed
for HF ripple - and tend not to specify ESR at all, just ripple current,
DF and lifetime.

what frequency does the ESR meter use? is there an on-line schematic?

M.G. also gives the real guts on lifetime calcs too, but they are
transcendental so no closed-form solution. but if you know enough to
look at a nichicon or nippon chemi-con catalogue, you've probably come
across their lifetime calcs.

he has a very interesting plot of the effect of line impedance on cap
lifetime - in a standard diode-cap recitifer, the line impedance
directly controls the peak current, and hence lifetime.

Of course in practise most cap lifetime problems arise because the
"designer" did one or more of the following:

1) used the wrong part - eg cheesy DSE caps instead of LXZs etc.
2) beat it to death, usually by ignoring (or being unaware of) ripple
current. dont forget a smps mains cap sees 100/120Hz *and* HF ripple
current.
3) cooked the damned thing, by placing it next to something very hot

I was involved once in the design review of a small toshiba AC motor
controller - IIRC 1/2HP. It was far, far cheaper than our offering, so
we bought one and reverse-engineered it. The first thing we noticed was
the tiny DC bus cap, which wouldnt last long at all. Buried deep in the
manual, in small print, was the requirement to replace it every year :)
Oh, we fired it up, slammed it into current limit, and it never tripped
- just went bang 5 minutes later. Our one would operate continuously
into a dead short. cheap usually means nasty.

Cheers
Terry
 
"B J Foster" <bjfoster@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Stop responding
are you retarded? ....no...really...im being serious

MrB
 
On 2006-02-20, Glenn Pure <glenn*delete_this_for_reply*@evans-pure.net> wrote:
Thanks to posters for advice. I don't need any processing grunt. A
32KHz crystal would be fine for me needs.

BTW, I will need to use a PIC with an A/D converter so am somewhat
limited in my choices.
A/D converters aren't the only way to measure voltage.

Bye.
Jasen
 
Glenn Pure wrote:
Thanks to posters for advice. I don't need any processing grunt. A
32KHz crystal would be fine for me needs.

BTW, I will need to use a PIC with an A/D converter so am somewhat
limited in my choices.
Listing all the "nanoWatt" pics with ADCs on the Microchip website
shows that you have no real shortage of choice.
If pin count is not a problem then the 16F88 would probably be the
first choice as it is readily available.
You probably don't need a nanoWatt device either, do the power
calculations for a clock speed of 32.768KHz on a normal PIC and you
might find that will be OK for your requirements too.
BTW, with a clock speed this low you will need to choose the internal
RC oscillator for the ADC clock source, as the clock needs to be within
a specific range.

Dave :)
 
"Sir Jean-Paul Turcaud" <xyz@atlante.edu> wrote in message
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Complain about what ?

.....that fact that you are a uttere usenet nutjob?
 
CLEARLY NOT THE ONLY ONE

Mr Black wrote:
"Sir Jean-Paul Turcaud" <xyz@atlante.edu> wrote in message
news:dtc28b$ds5$2@aphrodite.grec.isp.9tel.net...

Complain about what ?


....that fact that you are a uttere usenet nutjob?
 
I did some research recently and found that for the quantity your looking at
maybe the GPS mouse variety with serial interface (TTL vs RS-232).

In OZ landed for about $80.00 (US$35 + AU$30.00 freight per unit). Nice
feature is that the ones I got had magnetic base plus inbuilt antenna (one
had an active antenna). Negotiate freight as DHL are bloody expensive,
better off using post.

I found the chaps overseas very helpful and the products very good in terms
of performance and quality.

Idea of prices -

"Gere Tan(www.iternet.com.tw)" <gere@iternet.com.tw>
PS-1200 GPS mouse
Sample -- USD 42
100 PCS --USD 32
Remarks:
----------------------------------------------------
1. Term: FOB Taiwan.
2. Payment: T/T in advance.
3. Lead time: 3 ~4 weeks after receive T/T payment

Please don't hesitate to contact me for any further question.

HI-204E was phased out and belows are the rest of items for
sample/100 pcs
FOB Taiwan prices:
HI-204S US$ 34.00/US$ 30.00
HI-204III US$ 37.00/US$ 33.00

JACK LIU/HAICOM

-------------------------------------------------
Good luck.
H.M.

"Heywood Jablome" <nomail@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:dtdnp5$sis$1@news-01.bur.connect.com.au...
Hi all,

I'm looking for around 20 units of a gps module. Has anyone any sources
for
good suppliers?

I have seen

http://www.sparkfun.com/shop/index.php?shop=1&cart=581190&cat=1&itemid=497&

which fit the ticket but am looking for the most cost effective way of
getting 20 units. If there are any cheaper units out there, i'm
interested.

Also, the above is still a bit power hungry at 70ma which isn't much of a
concern, but is still a factor. Ideas and experiences appreciated.

-Phil
 

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