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04/13/07 14:16
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#137166 - About the 1-wire Christmas tree...
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Jan Waclawek said:
what was the 1-wire receiver at the tree end?

It's a DS2408 8-Channel Addressable Switch:
http://www.maxim-ic.com/quick_view2.cfm/qv_pk/3818

Each channel of the DS2408 drives a ZTX300 transistor which, in turn, switches a string of 5 LEDs.

Could you give more details?

As previously mentioned, this is controlled by a Philips (now NXP) 'LPC932 - in fact, it's a Keil MCB900 dev board:
http://www.keil.com/mcb900/

This has the 1-Wire master routines, and just sends random numbers to the Tree end - giving a pretty, multicoloured twinkly effect on the LEDs on the tree!

Of course, it'd be a whole lot easier just to have the MCB900 at the tree, and drive the LEDs direct - but that's not the point.

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TopicAuthorDate
dallas one wire : working range ?            01/01/70 00:00      
   Nothing exact, but            01/01/70 00:00      
   a rough translation from our local hw mailing list            01/01/70 00:00      
   they quote 750 meters            01/01/70 00:00      
      EMI            01/01/70 00:00      
      Head end ?            01/01/70 00:00      
         App Notes            01/01/70 00:00      
            Specifically            01/01/70 00:00      
   I had trouble with <3m!            01/01/70 00:00      
      You must be doing it wrong!            01/01/70 00:00      
         1-wire Christmas tree?            01/01/70 00:00      
            About the 1-wire Christmas tree...            01/01/70 00:00      
               how fast?            01/01/70 00:00      
               ZTX            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Funny you should say that...            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Relics            01/01/70 00:00      
                        I've got some OC71s somewhere, too...!            01/01/70 00:00      
         Tried the fet interface...            01/01/70 00:00      

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