PCB thingy with connectors and RPM
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 12:55 pm
Hello all,
After receiving my RCP last month (X-mas 2013 was excellent), I started toying and playing around and pretty soon I was knee deep in solder pads, wires, connectors and all the other stuff I wave around on race weekends.
So far I've sleeved most of my sensor wiring and put connectors on everything.
Still to do is to resleeve all cables in fireresistant sleeving.
However, I still want to add the LM2907 or 2917 to the mix, so I can convert the frequency coming of the ground side of the coil to a save voltage.
My idea was to put everything on one board and stick that under the RCP. I can then quickly and easily connect and disconnect sensors and other stuff.
Now the next stage would be to design a PCB to take care of wiring, power distribution, denoising and dropping the brakelight signal to 5v max.
So far I've started playing around with PCB Express, but before I put in more time, I'd love to find out if anybody else has considered doing something like this or if anyone has any interesting suggestions.
Yes, I know a Coil RPM signal converter is on the way, but my primary objective was to create an easy way of using my current batch of sensors (which all have the Hansen Hobbies .100" (2.54mm) latching polarized connectors) to the RCP.
Michael
After receiving my RCP last month (X-mas 2013 was excellent), I started toying and playing around and pretty soon I was knee deep in solder pads, wires, connectors and all the other stuff I wave around on race weekends.
So far I've sleeved most of my sensor wiring and put connectors on everything.
Still to do is to resleeve all cables in fireresistant sleeving.
However, I still want to add the LM2907 or 2917 to the mix, so I can convert the frequency coming of the ground side of the coil to a save voltage.
My idea was to put everything on one board and stick that under the RCP. I can then quickly and easily connect and disconnect sensors and other stuff.
Now the next stage would be to design a PCB to take care of wiring, power distribution, denoising and dropping the brakelight signal to 5v max.
So far I've started playing around with PCB Express, but before I put in more time, I'd love to find out if anybody else has considered doing something like this or if anyone has any interesting suggestions.
Yes, I know a Coil RPM signal converter is on the way, but my primary objective was to create an easy way of using my current batch of sensors (which all have the Hansen Hobbies .100" (2.54mm) latching polarized connectors) to the RCP.
Michael