Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/26

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Subject: [Leica] Re: M6TTL and M7 Clues
From: jimbrick@photoaccess.com (Jim Brick)
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 18:17:58 -0800

I do indeed understand digital circuits, oscillators, mark-space ratio
(actually, called duty cycle), etc... I was commenting about why, on the
TTL, the LEDs don't dim. Not about what can be done, but what was done.
This was a simple minded point. Sorry if I confused anyone. 

Jim

At 09:45 AM 10/26/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Jim wrote:
>
>> This explains why the LED's switch on/off and required a third LED
>to
>> show
>> proper exposure. There is no such thing as a dim-able LED with
>digital
>> circuitry. It's either on or off. No in between. Maybe I could
>learn to
>> like the TTL after all.
>
>Actually you can. You switch it on an off too quickly for the eye to
>see (say 100Hz or so) and vary the mark-space ratio. Actually that's
>usually how you do it even with analogue driving circuits.
>
>David Morton

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