Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "superwolle70" 
<superwolle70@...> wrote:
>
> Hm, I am really no talented tech, but reading the first 
> page of the FSR doc tells me that the higher the force, 
> the higher the resistance.

Actually it's just the opposite.  The harder you press on them the 
less the resistance.

> So technically naive as I am I could imagine that a 
> permanent voltage runs through the SDX pads and when 
> hitting the pad we get a voltage holler instead of a 
> pulse. Is that possible?

You get a sudden drop in resistance.  That can be converted to a 
voltage spike, vaguely similar to what a piezo produces.  There's a 
circuit in the FSR pdf from earlier in the thread (page 23?) that 
does that.  

Dave

P.S.  This is my third attempt to post a response to this. Is anyone 
else having posting issues?