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Fiber Optic to USB Serial Interface V1

author: dewhisna
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2 layer board of 1.60 x 2.00 inches (40.6 x 50.8 mm)
Uploaded: August 24th 2023
Shared: August 24th 2023
Total Price: $16.00

This board uses a FT232RNL FTDI chip with a IF-D91B and IF-E96E fiber optic pair to provide a fiber optic serial I/O data stream conversion to/from USB. This board is designed to be used with the DRSSTCDAQ-V3 DRSSTC Data Acquisition Board. However, you can use two of these boards to communicate between two computers via a fiber optic link.

ERRATA:

  • The Fiber Optic Receiver transimpedance amp gain is way too high, even with the sensitivity potentiometer turned all the way down, unless you have an extremely long fiber run or a very horrible fiber cable. Use a 4.7K resistor for R1 instead of the 470K. The 1M pot still works fine and might could even be a 500K. But definitely change the series resistor.

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This board uses a FT232RNL FTDI chip with a IF-D91B and IF-E96E fiber optic pair to provide a fiber optic serial I/O data stream conversion to/from USB. This board is designed to be used with the DRSSTCDAQ-V3 DRSSTC Data Acquisition Board. However, you can use two of these boards to communicate between two computers via a fiber optic link.

ERRATA:

  • The Fiber Optic Receiver transimpedance amp gain is way too high, even with the sensitivity potentiometer turned all the way down, unless you have an extremely long fiber run or a very horrible fiber cable. Use a 4.7K resistor for R1 instead of the 470K. The 1M pot still works fine and might could even be a 500K. But definitely change the series resistor.

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