[sdiy] Stobe Tuners

[James Patchell]

http://www.petersontuners.com/

http://www.precisionstrobe.com/pstinfo/pstinfo.html

Of course, those are virtual strobe tuners.  Real strobe tuners had a 
rotating wheel with a light behind them that would flash when the 
microphone picked up a tone.  I actually have a real strobe tuner, but it 
is not longed for this world...

At 11:34 AM 12/11/2004 -0800, Tim Ressel wrote:
>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:
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> > 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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