Here's what I'm thinking... wouldn't it be cool to have voltage monitoring for constant current anodizing? Here's what I'm envisioning: Data monitoring coming in from the Parallel, Serial, or Game port of a computer... fed into a program, possibly labview or MS Excel or something... A graph of Voltage vs. Time would be generated, updated real time (if possible). Polling would be done at 6-10 second intervals, and a 1 minute average would be displayed on the screen... Once the one minute average had dropped for 2 consecutive minutes, the program would sound an audible alarm, letting you know that PAR had been reached.
Now, I know that data acquisition systems/software are not cheap. The Yokigawa, HBM, and Etas systems that I've worked with would make most home anodizers faint if they saw the price tags. I'm looking at ways to accomplish this for under $50. The links to above hardware may allow this, but I'm not all that well studied on electronics.
Keep in mind, this would be an ideal solution for me, it may not be the best solution for a given price. Does anyone want to help make this happen?
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