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Unread 06-26-2003, 06:22 PM   #1
Groth
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: MO
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Default CPU Ammeter, v.3

To all three or four people who care about the quest to measure CPU power usage, I finished building the new and improved ammeter.

It features 0.02% precision resistors, a gigantic improvement over the old 1% tolerance. It has on board a capacitive charge-pump, to eliminate the necessity of tapping into the -12 V line. Analog isolation has been replaced with superior digital isolation. Op-amp input offset voltage has been reduce 40 fold. Yeeha!

Sadly, I messed up a bit on the assembly, and killed my ADC by feeding -9.2 volts into a pin rated for -0.3 to 6.0 volts. It really sucks to leave off one resistor. Soooo, no exiting results or pretty graphs until I get a new one.

In mean time... Damn I make a nice circuit board!
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