After reading some of the posts talking about future Plasma Cutter use with Acorn I have been thinking about a fiber optic interface to provide encoder input into the Acorn board.
In a past life (Reactor Operator in a nuclear power plant) we used a fiber optic cable to send signals from the reactor coolant pump power monitors (9000 hp, 6.9 kv motors) to the reactor protection cabinets in the control room. The system had to work in spite of welding, switchgear operation, turbine generator operations (22 kv 860 MW) and transmission lines (500 kv and 230 kv). Point is fiber optics are mostly immune to electrical noise.
It should be easy to setup transmitter from the encoder to receivers at next to the Acorn board, this would eliminate noise from vfds etc.
Does anyone know a source for cheap fiber optics components? Anyone worked on any fiber optic projects? Maybe even surplus equipment.
Chuck
Fiber Optic Interface
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Re: Fiber Optic Interface
Would be fun but probably not practical. Would require a minimum of 3 fibers (A,B,Z) plus power & ground to the encoder end and then decoder on the acorn end to create +A,+B,+Z,-A,-B,-Z. Another approach would be to sample the encoder signals and serialize them on one fiber, this would probably require a small programmable processor on both ends. Fun but not practical considering the low cost of current technology (my opinion ).
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Re: Fiber Optic Interface
Thanks for the reply, I was thinking something similar to a fiber to ethernet converter. I will need to see how many pairs are actually transferred.
May get one or two to play with.
Chuck
about $27 from Amazon.May get one or two to play with.
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Re: Fiber Optic Interface
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Re: Fiber Optic Interface
Thanks Keith, it looks great. Hope that I can afford it when it is released.
Chuck
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