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Date:  3-23-2011
Number of Hours:  2.50
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Brief Description:  More RFI trouble shoting

While on a 2 day trip I was able to do some research and confer with someone knowledgeable in RS485 architecture. It seems a 120 ohm resistor connected between the 2 network wires at the long ends of the wire runs helps reduce external noise more so than just the twisted pairs of wires. So today I solder up a resistor between two wires and then added D-sub pins so I can slice this into my existing wire runs. I made two sets since the system needs one at both ends. I hooked it up as the guy I consulate with said at the roll servo end and the AP74 was my next longest run.

The resistor did not work but made things worse, now it will not see the AP74. I decided to shorten all the network wire runs for those that I could shorten, the servo have to stay the length they are currently. I then tested it again and still the same thing. I then removed the resistor just to confirm they were my issue and the network came up. I then tested the system with a few radio transmission and all seems to work well, but I have been here before, now maybe the shortening of the network wire did the trick, I know the guy I emailed said to make them as short as possible but not to go crazy. I essentially removed about 9-12 inched on two wires and that seems to be the fix for now. The last idea the guy had was to put the resistors on the roll and pitch servo, we had on used the roll servo at first because the servos are fed from one branch. Until the issue appears again I am not going to try to mess with anything besides getting back to the pitch servo is a pain.
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This is what I used to temporarily splice in the resistor

This is what I used to temporarily splice in the resistor

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