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Subject: RE: [motm] future thoughts (Rate of change detector)

From: "Brousseau, Paul E (Paul)" <noise@...>
Date: 2002-09-16

Not exactly related to a lag circuit, because a lag circuit maintains (sp) its voltage, whereas what Elhardt wants is something that pops back to zero once the input it steady.

Mathematically speaking, this is a differential, though, yes. Unfortunately, I couldn't quickly find such a circuit from google.com. Have you tried asking onthe SDIY list?

--PBr

-----Original Message-----
From: Tkacs, Ken [mailto:ken.tkacs@...]
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 6:26 PM
To: 'motm@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: FW: [motm] future thoughts (Rate of change detector)


This sounds like a differentiator, no? It's kind of the opposite of a Lag
circuit.


-----Original Message-----
From: elhardt@...
To: motm@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 9/14/2002 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [motm] future thoughts (Rate of change detector)

As far as future module thoughts, something I'm finding myself needing
is
something that outputs a voltage based on how fast an input voltage
changes,
then the output voltage drops back to zero when the input stops
changing. It's
kind of like an AC detector, getting rid of the DC component. I'm
needing it to
detect the initial breath of air from a breath controller and also to
eliminate
the DC portion of the output of my Spacebeam. If anybody ever does a
module
like this, let me know. I'm trying to think of a way to do it on the
current
MOTM module line. Maybe I can go through the AC portion of the mixer or
something.