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Ultra Fast Solution Applications for Prolonged Gap-free Recordings: Controlling a Burleigh Piezo-Electric Positioner with Clampex 7

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Ultra Fast Solution Applications for Prolonged Gap-free Recordings: Controlling a Burleigh Piezo-Electric Positioner with Clampex 7

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  • Author: A.Y. Kabakov
Typically, the voltage command signals used to control a piezo-electric device such as the Burleigh LSS-3200 solution switcher have to be programmed as a series of voltage ramp epochs in order to control motion, as well as to protect the piezo-electric crystal from sharp voltage jumps. In the pCLAMP 6 environment this involves using the waveform output of Clampex and the episodic acquisition mode. Using Clampex 7 and an inexpensive RC filter circuit (Figure 1) to suitably condition voltage step commands, new Clampex 7 features permit the coordination of piezo-electric solution exchange with other Clampex acquisition modes such as gap-free and event-driven acquisition.

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