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> From: Tkacs, Ken [mailto:Ken.Tkacs@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 8:22 AM
> To: 'MOTM Forum All'
> Subject: [motm] Sine Shape w/o Scope
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> From: "Tkacs, Ken" <Ken.Tkacs@...>
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> I haven't needed to do this, but for those of you without an oscilloscope,
> you might consider this agonizing way of calibrating your sine shape.
>
> Once you have the VCO built, try recording a short snippet of the sine
> output into your computer's sound card and then look at it on
> screen in one
> of a hundred different WAV editors. It's a pain to go back and forth like
> that, compared to the real-time feedback of a 'scope, but you can probably
> get really close by ear and then check it this way to satisfy
> yourself that
> the sine looks good.
>
> In fact, you may even be able to find a shareware program on the web that
> lets you use your PC as a scope. I hear they exist. Be careful not to blow
> up your sound card with high voltages, of course.
>
>
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