Re: Ambient light sensing via LED response

2009-05-05 Thread Reinder de Haan
Hallo, C. Scott Ananian wrote: snip A last resort would be hooking up a MOSFET as a simple amplifier -- again, you're not worried about linearity or any such niceties, but you'd still need a good match for your MOSFET's threshold voltage... some real measurements to replace the WAGes would

[Fwd: Re: Ambient light sensing via LED response]

2009-05-06 Thread Reinder de Haan
Original Message Subject: Re: Ambient light sensing via LED response Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 00:02:49 +0200 From: Reinder de Haan r...@mveas.com To: raf...@laptop.org References: 200904290017.n3t0hl2v006...@new.toad.com c5d4a4e5-b183-4b7d-bafb-3488e15f7...@laptop.org

Re: [Fwd: Re: Ambient light sensing via LED response]

2009-05-10 Thread Reinder de Haan
C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Reinder de Haan r...@mveas.com wrote: Absolutely not. The A/D is eight bits, with an input range spanning 0 - 3.3V, so the best you can hope for is about 13 mV per LSB. I would guess actual accuracy to be closer to 26

Re: Longer XO transformer power cord in the plans?

2009-05-31 Thread Reinder de Haan
Sascha Silbe wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 03:16:53PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: 1. Earthing. The current design has no earth at the AC end, and is isolated in relation to the DC end. An earthed AC plug in some countries produces a more reliable and positive insertion and anchoring.

Re: Longer XO transformer power cord in the plans?

2009-05-31 Thread Reinder de Haan
Tiago Marques wrote: On 5/31/09, Reinder de Haan r...@mveas.com wrote: Sascha Silbe wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 03:16:53PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: 1. Earthing. The current design has no earth at the AC end, and is isolated in relation to the DC end. An earthed AC plug in some