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- From: schuch@phx.mcd.mot.com (John Schuch)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Soundblaster for low rent data acquisition?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.183558.19750@phx.mcd.mot.com>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 18:35:58 GMT
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- In article <PHR.92Dec22195830@napa.telebit.com> phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin) writes:
- >I am interested in a cheap way to monitor some slowly changing
- >voltages (read: DC) in a piece of test equipment. 8-bit resolution
- >is fine. I can scale the voltages to the 0-1 VDC range (or similar)
- >using resistor networks if I need to.
- >Does anyone know if a Soundblaster is a reasonable way to do this?
-
- Couldn't you use a game(joystick) port? I haven't tried it but the
- boards are cheap and I imagine they would make a reasonable 4 channel
- analog input system, albeit low resolution.
-
- John
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