It was pretty easy to understand how to plug it in, things like this are usually well made! It needs line 230VAC, and also +/-25VDC, and of course the X and Y signals.
So I made a boost converter to create the needed voltage from the +12V rail, and a simple backplane board to connect everything:
The boost converter is based on the AP3012 chip, a really inexpensive and low part count solution! I used the schematic from another chip to make the dual supply:
And what are your plans with the H-bomb this was connected to originally? Or had there been someone at that trash bin before you and already taken that?
I don’t know for sure what this thing does… Or if it works at all! I tried to feed him some signals, but no answer…
That said, from what I saw, it might be useful for my job, as I have to measure low signals and this seems to do that? No idea really!
It reads as if you can measure the amplitude and phase of a specific frequency in a signal. You can use this to detect, for example, a carrier signal in telecommunication applications. How that exactly works in this particular device, I don’t know. This article may be interesting.
