"A new opamp's here, a new opamp's here!"

Oops I screwed up the link.

Just what PH needs- 140V across 50G is the same as 3V across 1G, right?

Thanks for the heads-up - looks to be worth further investigation. It doesn't have the same output-capacitance load requirement of most of the Apex parts {many seemingly designed to drive piezo crystals} - that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Well, I use the Apex to drive a piezo stack... maybe the LT part won't be as good? I'd have to redo the pcb... or make an Apex header pcb.

George H.

The KEY WORD ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Jamie

With, or with "The Steep Canyon Rangers"?

With, or without "The Steep Canyon Rangers"?

I assume that a nice email to LT would get me some free samples. (no time at the moment)

George H.

?? It was meant as a parody of "The new phone book's here....etc."

George H. (I'm clueless most of the time.)

Yup, except for the 11 nV noise and 15-ish pF input capacitance, which would put it a good 30 dB off the pace, unfortunately.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

"Who bore, 'mid snow and ice, a banner with the strange device, Excelsior!"

So, you don't know about "Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers", his Bluegrass group? :)

Wasn't thinking of using their front end without some low-noise gain up front.. but in seriousness I think you'd have to watch out for that resistor's voltage coefficient, if linearity mattered.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

I guess I knew he played the banjo.

Of course the master died just last year... RIP Earl (Scruggs) My son likes the banjo so we have a few of his CD's

George H.

I grew up on Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs...

"Saturday Night Jamboree" on WSAZ-TV, Huntington, WV, my hometown ;-) ...Jim Thompson

I'll have to stick with an Apex part until someone else makes a device that will output -20 to +150 that my piezo actuator needs... So near yet so far (rats!)

The group played on the Opry the first time I heard them. I hadn't heard anything about Steve Martin for at least a decade.

Another was Joe Mullins & 'The Radio Rangers'. He is the son of a country & Bluegrass DJ I knew when I was growing up. Paul, AKA: 'Moon Mullins' who played banjo in the early days of Bluegrass. He was about my dad's age, and they were from the same town.

I always loved 'Earl's Breakdown'.

Rangers",

I think Bela Fleck is the new master, he just plays jazz instead.

?-)

Bela Fleck has a Jazz band and a traditional bluegrass band.