Mercury - Frequently Asked Questions

From HPSDRwiki
Revision as of 18:06, 5 August 2009 by VK2NRA (Talk | contribs) (1st FAQ)

(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to: navigation, search

This is the questions regarding the Mercury receiver board qualify as 'frequent'.

ADC Overload

The ADC overload alert displayed in PowerSDR and KISS Konsole are to alert the user to possible "spurious signals in the bandscope".[1] They are not a warning of any danger to the receiver or the ADC - which are well protected. "The primary protection is the the clamp diode at the input connector, which hard clamps at 5 volts peak to peak".[2]

Notes

  1. http://lists.openhpsdr.org/pipermail/hpsdr-openhpsdr.org/2009-August/010396.html
  2. http://lists.openhpsdr.org/pipermail/hpsdr-openhpsdr.org/2009-August/010406.html