Re: i am looking for a 5 volt signal

2002-11-04 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Sun, 27-Oct-2002 at 09:12:33 -0800, David Nicholas Kayal wrote: > I'm looking for a 5 volt signal. > > I have wires plugged into pins 2 and 25 of the parallel port. > > I have written a small program: > > #include > #include > #include > > int main() > { > int fd; > while(1) > { >

Re: i am looking for a 5 volt signal

2002-10-29 Thread soralx
> :The output signals don't go straight from the chip - do they? > :I've seen few KOhms resistors on most boards for each output pin. > An external series resistor is there strictly for current > limiting purposes. Yep, that's why I asked if manufacturers usually put external resistors. I tried to

Re: i am looking for a 5 volt signal

2002-10-29 Thread Matthew Dillon
:The output signals don't go straight from the chip - do they? :I've seen few KOhms resistors on most boards for each output pin. : :27.10.2002; 19:32:00 :[SorAlx] http://cydem.zp.ua/ It depends on the chip. Most modern serial driver chips have series resistors on the outputs, inside th

Re: i am looking for a 5 volt signal

2002-10-29 Thread Joe Sunday
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 05:08:45PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 08:56:35AM -0500, Joe Sunday wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 09:12:33AM -0800, David Nicholas Kayal wrote: > > > > > I'm looking for a 5 volt signal. > > > > > > I have wires plugged into pins 2 and 25 of

Re: i am looking for a 5 volt signal

2002-10-29 Thread Bernd Walter
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 08:56:35AM -0500, Joe Sunday wrote: > On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 09:12:33AM -0800, David Nicholas Kayal wrote: > > > I'm looking for a 5 volt signal. > > > > I have wires plugged into pins 2 and 25 of the parallel port. > > > > I have written a small program: > > > > #inclu

Re: i am looking for a 5 volt signal

2002-10-28 Thread Joe Sunday
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 09:12:33AM -0800, David Nicholas Kayal wrote: > I'm looking for a 5 volt signal. > > I have wires plugged into pins 2 and 25 of the parallel port. > > I have written a small program: > > #include > #include > #include > > int main() > { > int fd; > while(1) >

Re: i am looking for a 5 volt signal

2002-10-27 Thread soralx
> In anycase, I can only concur on the danger of ganging the parallel > power output bits. A single chip is driving those outputs and is > almost certainly not rated to deal with a maximal current draw from > all of them at once for long periods of time. It could fry. The output s

Re: i am looking for a 5 volt signal

2002-10-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Matthew Dillon wrote: > Huh. I would have expected you to use the current loop on the > phone line to power the dialer. There's a significant amount > of power available there, though you would have to isolate the > circuit since the common mode could be upwards of one or two >

Re: i am looking for a 5 volt signal

2002-10-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :Matthew Dillon wrote: :> Uh guys. Parallel port digital outputs do not generally have a whole :> lot of drive. I really doubt a parallel port output could drive a :> relay. : :Depends on the amperage the relay draws. 8-). : :I used to use the paralell port output to drive a pulse

Re: i am looking for a 5 volt signal

2002-10-27 Thread GB Clark
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 11:19:15 -0800 (PST) Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : > :Shouldn't the fact that the signal is in a while loop keep the 5 volt > :signal going? Isn't the parallel port being blasted with the > :value 255 over and over again? > : > :The serial port will not fulf

Re: i am looking for a 5 volt signal

2002-10-27 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 11:19:15AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > : > :Shouldn't the fact that the signal is in a while loop keep the 5 volt > :signal going? Isn't the parallel port being blasted with the > :value 255 over and over again? > : > :The serial port will not fulfill what i am ultima

Re: i am looking for a 5 volt signal

2002-10-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Matthew Dillon wrote: > Uh guys. Parallel port digital outputs do not generally have a whole > lot of drive. I really doubt a parallel port output could drive a > relay. Depends on the amperage the relay draws. 8-). I used to use the paralell port output to drive a pulse dialer and

Re: i am looking for a 5 volt signal

2002-10-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :Shouldn't the fact that the signal is in a while loop keep the 5 volt :signal going? Isn't the parallel port being blasted with the :value 255 over and over again? : :The serial port will not fulfill what i am ultimately trying to achive. I :am trying to have the parallel port to control 8 rel

Re: i am looking for a 5 volt signal

2002-10-27 Thread David Nicholas Kayal
I'm having problems just using 1 bit fromt he parallel port at this time. On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the parallel port then is ok > now you can use a logical multiplexer > > and from the paralel port you can use just 3 bits > > take a look to the data sheets ot this multiplex

Re: i am looking for a 5 volt signal

2002-10-27 Thread David Nicholas Kayal
Shouldn't the fact that the signal is in a while loop keep the 5 volt signal going? Isn't the parallel port being blasted with the value 255 over and over again? The serial port will not fulfill what i am ultimately trying to achive. I am trying to have the parallel port to control 8 relays each

i am looking for a 5 volt signal

2002-10-27 Thread David Nicholas Kayal
I'm looking for a 5 volt signal. I have wires plugged into pins 2 and 25 of the parallel port. I have written a small program: #include #include #include int main() { int fd; while(1) { ioctl(fd, PPISDATA, 255); } } and have it executing... I have a multi-meter with the p