Okay... another month has gone by but things are going very well. I have been working hard at my new job at GE healthcare and completed some cool tasks. The foremost is the GUI program I wrote in MATLAB to convert selected parts of a .MAT file into CSV files. I had not written any type of program until that time and for a while it kicked my butt until I started asked questions on Matlab forums and got some great answers and some great help. I am also setting up our new electronics lab outside the clean room so we don't have to suit up to test anything. It can be a hassle sometimes as there is no bathroom in the cleanroom.
So with that said I started a new project today. Last year a friend gave me an old Speeddome 2000 camera on a three axis control system from Sensormatic. it's old (maybe 1998 ish) but apparently it still works.If not I will toss it and bury myself in something else.) I have to replace one voltage sensor that was broken. a 0.79 cent part from digikey but the problem is ordering from digikey that one part will wind up costing around ten bucks due to shipping.So I'm going to hold off until I get a few more things on my list.
I powered the device up this weekend. I have a few old but large 60Hz transformers sitting around from various devices I took apart. No labels but I sent a signal through a signal generator at two volts and figure out how they were wound by guessing the primary and secondary windings and looking at the voltage peaks at the secondary sides.
The device needs 24 Volts.... AC. I'm not totally sure why. I'm curious to see if the voltage gets rectified inside somehow. The transformer generated 22 vac and that was within specs. I hastily tied it all togather and voila' the device powered up. Here are some pictures below.
If anyone has any detailed info on these babies let me know. I am looking up all the IC's I can get at on the device. There are a few IC's with programs on them I am going to try and extract the programs from. no idea how but We'll try.
This will probably take a while but my goal is to be able to control this thing to tilt and rotate on command from an Arduino or something.
Thanks all
Bill
So with that said I started a new project today. Last year a friend gave me an old Speeddome 2000 camera on a three axis control system from Sensormatic. it's old (maybe 1998 ish) but apparently it still works.If not I will toss it and bury myself in something else.) I have to replace one voltage sensor that was broken. a 0.79 cent part from digikey but the problem is ordering from digikey that one part will wind up costing around ten bucks due to shipping.So I'm going to hold off until I get a few more things on my list.
I powered the device up this weekend. I have a few old but large 60Hz transformers sitting around from various devices I took apart. No labels but I sent a signal through a signal generator at two volts and figure out how they were wound by guessing the primary and secondary windings and looking at the voltage peaks at the secondary sides.
The device needs 24 Volts.... AC. I'm not totally sure why. I'm curious to see if the voltage gets rectified inside somehow. The transformer generated 22 vac and that was within specs. I hastily tied it all togather and voila' the device powered up. Here are some pictures below.
This will probably take a while but my goal is to be able to control this thing to tilt and rotate on command from an Arduino or something.
Thanks all
Bill
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