Servo - January 2007

New Products

NEW PRODUCTS

SENSORS

Brushless Motor RPM Sensor

Eagle Tree Systems announces their innovative new Brushless Electric Motor RPM Sensor/Tachometer. The brushless RPM sensor makes it easy to measure RPM.

To measure RPM on a brushless electric plane, heli, car, or boat, just tap one wire from the tiny new sensor into one motor lead, enter motor parameters to the software, and you are ready to go. The brushless RPM sensor is compatible with Eagle Tree’s MicroPower, PowerPanel, Seagull, and Data Recorder products. Using the Brushless RPM Sensor with Eagle Tree’s Seagull and Data Recorder products requires firmware level 4.XX or higher, which has been shipping since approximately August 2005.

For further information, please contact:

4957 Lakemont Blvd. SE, Ste. C- 4, PMB 235

Bellevue, WA 98006

Email: sales@eagletreesystems.com Website: www.eagletreesystems.com

Eagle Tree Systems

SOUND PROCESSING

All New SoundPlexer8000

The SoundPlexer8000 unit from GB Innovations will allow you to record/playback sounds and route them to any of the eight speaker outputs, in any combination (for example, sound track 1 can be heard out of speakers 2, 5, and 7 or sound track 7 can be routed to all eight speakers simultaneously). The SoundPlexer8000 can also be configured to trigger these sounds via simple switches or PIR sensors (for example, sound track 2 can be sent to speakers 2, 6, and 8 when input 2 is triggered). Any combination of speakers/inputs/outputs can be programmed through the intuitive menu system via the built-in LCD display. The SoundPlexer8000 makes adding sound to any environment/project easy.

What Can the SoundPlexer8000 Do?

Imagine the sound of a ghost following someone down a hallway, or a haunted room with different sounds coming from different objects around the room. Or, how about a model train layout with different sound effects

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throughout the entire landscape, yet specific sounds at specific locations when the train arrives or passes by. Perhaps you want to add different sounds to every room of a dollhouse. Or, add sounds to your robot or animatronics character. All this is possible with the SoundPlexer8000.

SoundPlexer8000 features include:

• Records up to eight one-minute tracks.

• Built-in LCD display screen with an intuitive menu system for quick and simple programming, recording, and playback. No computer or host system needed.

• Record from either the built-in microphone or line in from any sound source line out.

• Playback any track through one or all eight speakers simultaneously.

• Each output is capable of driving an eight-ohm speaker with one watt of continuous and up to two watts of peak power.

• Master volume control.

• Eight selectable inputs which are edge triggered. Either low or high going sensor pulses will trigger the input.

• Programmable delays which will delay the track from playing after an input has been triggered.

• Program any switch input to trigger any track (sound) out of any of the eight speakers via the user programmable “Play list.” Play lists are stored in EEPROM for data retention.