[sdiy] LFOs Revisited ( XR2206 anyone? )

[Paul Schreiber]

Look for the CMOS  8038 version from Maxim at

www.maxim-ic.com

Not high current, 4x the freq. range.

Paul S.

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From: ">>>marjan<<<" <urekar.m at EUnet.yu>
To: <xyzzy at sysabend.org>
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Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] LFOs Revisited ( XR2206 anyone? )


> 
> 2206 and 8038 (038's older brother) share notorious
> behaviour of high current consumption, chips even
> get hot like power amp chips. You might need to 
> make separate supply for them, I guess they'll 
> interfere with precision ccts. They look tempting
> but I guess classic VCO (like asm-1 vco in LFO 
> role at Bergfotron page) will be better in the longer
> run. 
> Still those chips produce some nice sine waves...
> 038 has somewhat flakey TTL output IIRC...
> 
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