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Subject: Re:Where can I buy an inexpensive strip chart recorder?
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Date: 12 Sep 90 19:10:20 GMT
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In article <1990Sep12.162833.15567@wrl.dec.com> reid@wrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) writes:
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>I want to buy a "strip chart recorder". I thougrht this was a very well-known
>device, but I just got back from my local electronics store (Fry's) and the
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>Brian Reid
>reid@decwrl.dec.com

Good luck! I had looked for quite some time for a strip recorder before I
gave up and built one. A home brew recorder is fairly straight forward (unless
you need to record thermocouples). Use calculator tape, and old clock motor,
and build a little DC servo driver for the pen. A few years ago I started
using a PC for data collection and gave up on recorders all together.

John

PS. the servo would be a lot simpler these days with the single chip
    servo systems I've seen around.
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