Eirc I use 75176 ( national / texas ) and it works great. Maxim chips have better fea tures but availablity and costs are prohibitive in India. Pailoor Eric Oliver wrote: > Ravi, > > I was just researching RS485 chips. What chip do you recommend ? > > Eric > > On Monday, July 26, 1999 7:41 AM, Ravi Pailoor [SMTP:chiptech@VSNL.COM] wrote: > > My application is as follows. > > > > I have 70 modules each having RS232 and RS485 drivers, 16C63, DAC 1220, AD7 705 > > and 24LC08. The modules control the current fed to a electro plating rectifi er in > > 7 banks of 10 each. The settable current is from 1 Amp to 50 Amps. The non > > linearity of the rectifier responce is taken care by calibration and the val ues > > are stores in the SEEPROM. > > > > These 70 modules spread over 100 meters are connected to a master controller > > based on Z80 which in turn is connected to a PLC. > > > > The PLC sends group commands to the Z80 system and the Z80 in turn sends and > > receives data to and from the 70 modules. > > It is working well in the noisy field environment. > > > > Now this module has become a building block for various industrial applicati ons. > > -- Website : http://business.vsnl.com/chiptech Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Ravi Pailoor Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" Attachment converted: wonderland:vcard.vcf 2 (TEXT/CSOm) (0000AD35)