<div dir="ltr">MIDI Solutions still make a series of MIDI utility boxes that run off MIDI power. Spliters, mergers and filters...mostly they work as they should, but occasionally they don't. I own a DSI Tempest which will not work with them. I am pretty that the boxes are the problem not the MIDI specifications and build from Dave Smith. I haven't ever opened them up to see what's inside which would ruin the cosmetic finish....<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 9:16 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rsdio@audiobanshee.com" target="_blank">rsdio@audiobanshee.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
On Mar 24, 2016, at 5:09 PM, Tom Wiltshire <<a href="mailto:tom@electricdruid.net">tom@electricdruid.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 24 Mar 2016, at 20:24, Olivier Gillet <<a href="mailto:ol.gillet@gmail.com">ol.gillet@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> Steve T's comment about 5V not being a reliable supply suggests to me that for things like this (let's call it "creative rule-bending"?!) we should use uPs that can operate from 5V down to 3V or so. There are such things, so this shouldn't be too difficult to organise.<br>
>><br>
>> The value of the resistors on the OUT side depend on the supply<br>
>> voltage. If the MCU is powered by 3.3V, they should be much lower than<br>
>> 220 ohm (about 50 ohm) - otherwise you won't be sending enough current<br>
>> in the loop!<br>
><br>
> Ah, yes, of course. Good point, Olivier. I was only thinking of the IN side.<br>
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> I suppose you could use the uP to detect its own power supply voltage and adjust the outgoing current accordingly, but at that point, it's all starting to get a bit more complicated than it's worth for a thing that removes 0xFE from a MIDI stream.<br>
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</span>It is not typical for a uP to have adjustable control over the outgoing current from a GPIO port pin. It is fairly common for a uP to have some sort of A/D pin that could be used to measure the supply voltage, but turning that into a variable output current would require additional resources. In other words, I agree that this is getting a bit more complicated than it's worth for something that is desired to be "simple."<br>
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Brian<br>
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