gEDA-user: Transformer as voltage transducer?

[Peter TB Brett]

On Monday 28 May 2007 04:16:18 Steven Michalske wrote:
> FTDI chips have a optically isolated mode of operation and a USB
> interface  You could even run this over some multimode fiber to
> really isolate and make remote mounting really easy.

They also have inaccurate documentation and only really basic Linux drivers -- 
you have to be running Windows to be able to set them up.

Having used them in a previous design and encountered many problems, I would 
not use them again.

Just my £0.02 worth.

Peter

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