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Finally Dave your mails are through... and yes, you're forgiven for the 
multiple answers since there were setting problems at the time. I wonder if 
this means Scott has surfaced or if there was just some delay on the list...

electronically yours, jesper - moderating
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave B" <bongo2001@...>
To: <Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 5:57 PM
Subject: [Simmons Drums] Re: Thoughts on interfaces.


> --- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "superwolle70"
> <superwolle70@...> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Actually it's just the opposite.  The harder you press on them the
> less the resistance.
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>> 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?
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> 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.
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> Dave
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> P.S.  This is my third attempt to post a response to this. Is anyone
> else having posting issues?
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