On Monday, 6 June 2022 14:38:29 EDT you wrote:
Hi Gene,
I think I recognize your name from along time ago on various other
mailing lists. Liad maybe? Or something other technical? Who knows.
Anyway, welcome to the KiCad group and the tool! It's really amazing
what you can get done with it now days.
Cheers,
John Stoffel
john@...
Thanks for the welcome John, and yes the name does have an old echo of
familiarity, but don't now recall the list. I did at one point inhabit
the eagle list and used it a few times, but gave up on it and wrote my
own gcode for the simple circuits I was using for encoders and such on my
cnc machines.
Thats not the only list of course as my interests are best described as
varied.
Now I have a gage sensor to mount, but can't find its footprint in the
debian 11 repo's old kit. It doesn't seem to have a footprint directory,
or perhaps KICAD has a different name for such? IDK.
Its a Honeywell TBPLLLN015PCUCV. Surface mount, 7 mm square 6 contact
pattern.
So I'd imagine I have to build it from the tarball, but can't find the
right round tuit. At my age, 87, its pretty easy to misslay it, and then
can't remember where it is.
I've about a 10mm sq. space to glue the pcb with the footprint cut into
it. And a whole bunch of 603 series resistors and capcitors to mount on
an eval board for an ADA4099-1 high voltage op-amp.
The final target is regulating the air pressure to a mister on a heavily
modified 6040 mill by pwm-ing the power to a bank of 5, small diapram
compressors I can't even hear running over the other cooling fans in the
mills electronics. Feed that from the 2hp shop compressor and what little
hearing I have left would soon go away. Not to mention burning up that
conpressor, it wasn't built to long tolerate a 50% duty cycle. Harbor
Freight special. Nuff said. :o(>
Take care & stay well John.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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- Louis D. Brandeis
Gene Heskett