Archive for May, 2007

Nonlinearity and span of transducers

Friday, May 4th, 2007

Every time when developer is selecting a transducers for their projects they have to look through various parameters and select part which best fits the design needs. This time lets look at some transducer characteristics that can be found in specifications.
Transducer Range
First of all lets clear out what is a range of a transducer. Range [...]

X-10 interface for home automation projects

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Simply speaking X10 protocol allows transmitting data over power lines. X10 uses a PLC(Power Line Carrier) technology. How does this work? Specification says that each time 60Hz AC signal crosses zero line there is a 120kHz burst transmitted with duration of 1ms.

 
One crossing burst forms one information bit. Simply speaking if wee need to form [...]