On 1/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">harrybissell</b> <<a href="mailto:harrybissell@prodigy.net">harrybissell@prodigy.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
OK lets say... you have ONE LM329... driving an<br>opamp buffer. This suppies voltage to the top of each switch.<br><br>The wipers of each switch go to the 4051 (with say 200 ohms<br>on resistance when selected... 10^12 off). The output of the 4051
<br>goes to the non-inverting input of a TL072 opamp (so with THAT<br>high of an input impedance... the extra 200 ohms doesn't do a damn<br>thing).<br><br>If all the resistors in ONE switch are matched to each other... the next
<br>switch just needs to be CLOSE in resistance... they could be all 100<br>ohms or 110 ohms, or all 90 ohms... With the high impedance of the buffer<br>they could be 10K ohms... (but usually you want some 'real' current going
<br>through a switch contact)<br><br>I suspecting that the tuning error you have is some small, but very real<br>loading on the circuit. Probably mr Ohm would tell you why its<br>happening...<br>There is some non-accounted for load, somewhere...
<br><br>Isn't design fun ??? :^P<br><br>H^) harry<br></blockquote></div><br>Ahhh! Then, with such a high impedance, I only have to have 1 set of resistors external to the rotaries, for the proper voltage range. (To make sure that I have the rotary changing the input voltage, the proper 1V/octave amount).
<br><br>With the setup as you say - that would make the entire thing MUCH simpler. :O I'm trying to picture it mentally right now - to see if I could breadboard a test of it, with say - 2 rotaries. :)<br>If that would work, I'd scrap the entire portion that I have now (for the rotaries - keeping the Clock / etc.) and do the rest on a daughter board. :)
<br><br clear="all">Wonder if I have enough brains left tonight, to try breadboarding it. :)<br><br>Thank you muchlee for that idea, Harry! :D<br><br>-- <br>Take care,<br>Warmth and Peace,<br>Ryk<br><br><a href="http://deathlehem.bravehost.com/damian.html">
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