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Re: [motm] that special serge whatever..

2000-11-01 by Paul Schreiber

> paul,
> care to shed some light about what exactly is going on in this scope
> snapshot?
> I follow the 1200hz squarewave in and then apply a  .5v to the cv in
> to increase the amplitude.
> Is it the fact that the wave no longer looks anything like a
> squarewave, and that a VCA (obviously)shouldn't do that?(especially
> not a 380 dollar one)


Er...that's my *point*!! :)

Maybe JH knows a good answer. I do know that the CA3280s used are kind of
strange.
Bernie Hutchins in Electronotes called them ' the most slippery ICs ever
designed", meaning
they have many undocumented...errr...."quirks".

Paul S.

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