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[ts-7000] Re: Using DIO to implements a current loop transmiter

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Using DIO to implements a current loop transmiter
From: "Charles" <>
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:56:15 -0000
Hi Enrique --

--- In  "enrique_cesena" <> wrote:
>
> --- In  "Charles" <charliem_1216@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi --
> 
> 
> Hi, and Thank You Charlie...
> 
> > Can you clarify what you mean?  I see (3) different possibilities:
> > 
> 
> Is the third option: current loop serial comm, and yes it's still used in 
> some devices that need long distance comm and isolation protection (in this 
> case is a dispenser machine), as you can see I'm not an expert in 
> electronics. 
> 
> > Really though, any one of these will be hard to do with DIO alone.  RS-232 
> > to current loop converters are (or were) available for the third option.  
> > Analog input will need an A/D converter, and analog output will a DAC (that 
> > you could drive with DIO).
> 
> There's available options but the most implements rs232 to current loop 
> converters. 

It seems to me that RS-232 to current loop converter hardware would be the best 
approach.  Why do you think it would not work?  To do serial communications 
(either RS-232 or current loop) with bit-banging DIO, you must essentially 
re-invent the whole UART & tty stack from scratch.
> 
> I'm trying to implement if not with DIO alone (sounds impossible to me) but 
> with the minimal implementation of electronics. The question it can be: Is 
> there any diagram or anybody knows how to implement a current loop serial 
> communication using directly the TS DIO? it's ok if is necessary to use an 
> external implementation of electronics (opto-isolator, amplifiers, resistors) 
> including external power for the isolated side. 

I've used B&B Electronics for conversion stuff in the past, and I see they have 
an app note about current loop communication:
http://www.bb-elec.com/bb-elec/literature/tech/curentlp.pdf

regards, ........ Charlie

> 
> Kind of Regards
> 
> Enrique
> 
> > 
> > regards, ......... Charlie
> > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks in Advance
> > > 
> > > Enrique
> > >
> >
>




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