Lpc2000

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "donhamilton2002" <hamilton@...>
To: <lpc2000@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 9:21 PM
Subject: [lpc2000] Re: Building DIY wiggler w/74VHC08


> --- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, Sean <embeddedrelated@w...> wrote:
>>
>> Hamilton:
>> 
>> What did you do differently between the two that you built?
>> 
>> -- Sean
>> 
>> 
> This first one I built was from parts in my junk box.
> A scrap vector board and a db-25 connector.
> 
> Through it together one late night.
> Looked like hell, but its such a simple circuit.
> 
> Never worked.
> 
> Second one, I built with a little more care.
> Some new parts, some scrap parts.
> 
> It looked like it worked, and the slowest speed. But it was flakey.
> Failed more then it worked. ( Atmel demo board)
> So I bought one from sparkfun.com
> 
> That one worked fine. So I built another just to see if I lost 
> my knack in building things.
> 
> The last one seemed to work OK, but still flakey. 
> I just gave up and use the pre-built one.
> 
> I have been building things for 20 years. This is not new.
> Whenever I see someone posting a message that they can not get
> a wiggler working, I have to ask "did you build it yourself ?".
> Most times its yes, "but its such a simple circuit !!"

If my PCB design is used, it should work every time.

Leon