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- From: cchapman@matd.gatech.edu (Charles H. Chapman)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Isolated Connector for IEEE Bus?
- Keywords: Advices sought
- Message-ID: <cchapman.128.714936843@matd.gatech.edu>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 17:34:03 GMT
- References: <4893@news.duke.edu>
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- In article <4893@news.duke.edu> fang@phy.duke.edu (Fang Zhong) writes:
- >From: fang@phy.duke.edu (Fang Zhong)
- >Subject: Isolated Connector for IEEE Bus?
- >Keywords: Advices sought
- >Date: 27 Aug 92 02:07:36 GMT
- >
- > I work on small signals of less than micro volts. I use a computer
- >to control my experiment and take data via IEEE bus. One of the equipments
- >in my setup is a digial ratio transformer made my Eaton Advanced Electronics.
- >This equipment was designed so poorly that a ten-times larger noise was
- >added to my circuit if I added it to my IEEE bus.
- > I would like to find a way to add the digital ratiotran to the IEEE
- >while the noise is isolated only to the ratiotran.
- > Will an optical isolation work in my case?
- >
-
- Hewlett Packard makes IEEE-488 bus extenders that have a fiber optic
- option available. You use a bus extender at each end of the fiber optic
- cable (up to several miles in length I believe) to convert back to normal
- IEEE-488 signals.
-
- Chuck
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- Charles H. Chapman (GTRI/MATD) (404) 528-7588
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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