[sdiy] Stobe Tuners

[James Patchell]

My StrobeTuner 220 is on it's last legs, so I was looking at strobe tuners 
on the internet today.  I found two really nice one, but they both cost 
about $500 (there abouts).  So, I began thinking, why should I spend $500 
on something that somebody else built, when I can easily spend $1000 and do 
it my self.  So, I began thinking and I do believe I have come up with a 
more or less painless way of making a strobe tuner.  I will draw up a 
schematic this weekend and post it.  I am hoping I will have enough time to 
lay out a PC board and get that off as well.  I am going to use 64 bi-color 
LEDs to simulate the strobe wheel.  The rest of the details would only take 
up a lot of space...so I will wait until I get things firmed up.  Biggest 
problem is what to use for a phase accumulator that will not take up a 
jillion IC packages....


         -Jim
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