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With shielded twisted pair cable, do you ground one end, both ends, or neither ends of the shield

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At what cable lengths are termination resistors required for RS-485 networks?

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Can the characteristic impedance Z0 of a conductor be measured?

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Understanding motor constants Kt and Kemf for comparing brushless DC motors

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What determines the speed of a brushless DC motor

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Meaning of balanced transmission line?

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Any good way to automatically enable an RS-485 transmitter in hardware?

7 votes
1 answer
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Most reliable Flash memory for an embedded Linux system?

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5 answers
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Best sensor for measuring rotation angle?

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RS-485 over many 1000s ft, ground wire and termination always needed?

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4 answers
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How to open .sch files? [closed]

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1 answer
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Implications of using a 145 ohm cable for RS-485

4 votes
1 answer
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Features to include on a new embedded Linux board to make development and debug easier?

4 votes
2 answers
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Has anyone seen power cycle corruption in industrial SD cards?

3 votes
1 answer
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CANopen frame format?

3 votes
1 answer
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What is the X3 header on the Arduino Duemilanove used for?

3 votes
1 answer
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Best way to diagnose embedded computer in field problems?

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2 answers
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Reading back 0xffff for temperature from I2C BMP085 temp/pressure sensor

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Source level debugging on Arduino?

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2 answers
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Signal overshoot and undershoot on RS-485 bus

2 votes
5 answers
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Brushless DC motor runs fine in one direction but not another

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1 answer
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EtherCAT topology and timing constraint question

2 votes
4 answers
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How to tell if brushless DC motor is wired delta or Y?

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1 answer
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Using Zener diode for circuit protection on RS-485 network

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2 answers
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Does performance of PV inverters degrade over time?

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3 answers
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What's a good sensor for measuring high voltages

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Ideal serial communications test?

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Brushless DC motor sometimes running backwards

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Debugging Vds exceeded in motor drive application