On Friday 28 April 2017 10:38:11 Jim Craig wrote:

> Thought you all might be interested in this cool little tool. I might
> have to add one to the toolbox.
>
> https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13929
>
> Let me know your thoughts.
>
> Jim
>
Its rather cute, Jim, but for me I see 2 problems, both of which keep the 
card in the rfi case.  Either or both might be showstoppers for you too.

BW limited to 30MHz. I have noises that extend to well above 100MHz to 
deal with.

The usb connection for power and ground probably is a ground loop, so it 
will lie to you in strange ways.

But if it has supply and ground isolation, its quite a decent toy for 
troubleshooting servo systems. The lack of bandwidth would make it less 
than usefull for studying stepper systems.

Trade the usb interface for a POE ethernet connection and it would be 
much more usefull because that would probably open the ground loop paths 
quite decently.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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