[sdiy] Stobe Tuners

[Oren Leavitt]

Was going to try and describe it, but a picture is worth a kilo-word.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3766932560

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Ressel <madhun2001 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Dec 11, 2004 11:34 AM
To: James Patchell <patchell at cox.net>, synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Stobe Tuners

Jim,

Er, what exactly is a strobe tuner?  

How about a nice Analog Devices DDS for the phase
accumulator?  AD9850 or it's ilk?

--TimR

--- James Patchell <patchell at cox.net> wrote:

> 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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