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- From: gerry@bluemoon.rn.com (Gerard M. Foley)
- Subject: Re: AEA-FAX
- Message-ID: <D2LNPB4w165w@bluemoon.rn.com>
- Sender: bbs@bluemoon.rn.com (BBS Login)
- Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
- References: <THEN.92Aug16133131@vipunen.hut.fi>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 09:59:12 EDT
- Lines: 48
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- then@vipunen.hut.fi (Tomi H Engdahl) writes:
-
- > In article <6LRgPB4w165w@bluemoon.rn.com> gerry@bluemoon.rn.com (Gerard M. Fo
- >
- > > Since it seemed busted anyway, I just now pried it open.
- > >I have not finished tracing the schematic diagram of it,
- > >but believe it or not, it containes the following parts,
- > >and no more: 1 Dual Op-Amp 5 resistors 4 diodes 4
- > >capacitors! (Sorry for the spelling of "contains" up
- > >there). There's magic in electronics!
- >
- > The magic is mainly in software, because most decoding of the
- > fax signal is done in software. That's what I think. I have seen
- > a shareware program called Hamcomm, which can send and decode
- > morse, rtty etc. signals. The circuit needed for decoding contains one
- > Op-amp and some passive components. The circuit filters the incoming
- > signal and converts it to square wave, which is send to one of the input pins
- > in the serial port. Every time the state in that input changes, UART
- > generates an interrupt. The software measeres time between interrupts
- > and so determines the signal frequency. When the program is used for sending,
- > the PC speaker ouput is connected (via passive low-pass filter) toi the
- > transmitter. Quite a hack.
- > I think that the fax device you mentioned works in the quite same way.
- >
- >
- > --
- >
- > Tomi.Engdahl@hut.fi "Don't force it; get a larger hammer"
- > then@vipunen.hut.fi
-
- The op-amp was a Motorola LM358N. I replaced it with a
- Radio Shack Cat.No.276-038, price $0.99, and the AEA-FAX
- seems to work again.
- It looks to me as if the AEA-FAX gets its power from
- RS232C line 20 (DTR) when that is made positive. It seems
- that the device is reset and interrogated on line 4 (RTS)
- and that the brightness level is proportional to the time
- that elapses until line 6 (DSR) changes state. If any
- software geniuses have good ideas on how to program to
- make this work, I would be very happy to hear from them.
- For VGA display, the device and software must perform
- the conversion to a gray level 480 times for each FAX
- drum revolution. The FAX drums turn at 1, 2 or 4 times
- per second.
-
- This is from
- gerry@bluemoon.rn.com
- who doesn't have his (or her) own obnoxious signature yet
-