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The MicroLan is a good way to connect sensors and actuators to a computer... but the MicroLan itself is connected to the computer through an adapter. There are adapters to connect 経由で the serial port, the 平行の port, and 経由で USB. If that isn't enough choices, there are also 装置s which do more than just connect the MicroLan and the PC... they have some 内部の 知能 themselves, and "解釈する／通訳する" between reasonably "English-like" dialog on the PC 味方する, and the more esoteric needs of the 装置s on the MicorLan 味方する. These are discussed in my pages 充てるd to serial, 平行の and USB 関係s to sensor/ actuator arrays.
One 始める，決める of 道具s you may want to use in sensing and 支配（する）／統制する 事業／計画（する）s is the 1-Wire or MicroLan 地元の area 網状組織, and the 半導体素子s that are made for it. Both 条件 are trademarks of Dallas 半導体, now 合併するd with Maxim. There's lots more about this at my Dalsemi-促進するing page. You may also be 利益／興味d in the 関連した discussion groups and 会議 古記録s.
For 1-Wire LANs, Cat-5 cable seems to be the way to go. There's more about Cat-5 in the page "above" this one. There are a number of suggestions here about 増加するing the reliability of 1-Wire LANs. Please don't take them as 暗示するing that 1-Wire is UNreliable.... they're just ways around the problems that can (who knows how often) arise..
If you are having trouble getting reliable 行為 from a 1-Wire 逮捕する, and you have looked carefully at the usual 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うs, try the に引き続いて. I've yet to see a 十分な explanation of why it should work explained... but for several people it DID work: Try 追加するing a low value resistor (I've seen 100 ohms について言及するd; I've seen 20 ohms) in series with the data line and/ or the ground line. Try the one on the data line first. 開始する them about a foot from the DS9097. They are said to help 避ける （犯罪の）一味ing and overshoot, and to 減ずる the chance of ground 宙返り飛行s.
If you bought Dallas's excellent 1-Wire evaluation 道具, you will have two "curly" leads, two leads like a self coiling telephone handset lead. If they work, 広大な／多数の／重要な. They are handy for desktop 実験s. Some 使用者s have 報告（する）／憶測d that they were the source of problems when used as part of larger LANs.
Another possible reliability-高めるing step: 取って代わる your DS9097 1-Wire to PC interface with an "iButtonLINK", at least I think that's the 指名する for it. Click here to visit their 場所／位置, at the iButtonLINK domain. (I 港／避難所't, by the way, seen anything to 示唆する that their use of the 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 "iButton" in their domain 指名する has the blessing of Dallas (trademark owner), but that doesn't stop the fact that for about $45 you can have a spare, かもしれない better 9097!) I 港／避難所't tried one myself, but I don't think your ソフトウェア is going to "see" any difference, unless you've used a silicon serial number which is part of some 9097s. In that 事例／患者, you'd only have to tell the ソフトウェア about the new silicon serial number, which I 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う will be 現在の in an iButtonLINK.
N.B.: The iButtonLink puts 5v on one of the outer pins of the connector, unlike the DS9097. Be sure that does not 衝突 with uses any of your 1-Wire modules may have made of that connector.... there are some that would. (It is 平易な enough to not connect to that pin of the connector, if need be.)
How big? What Topology?
In THEORY, you can build やめる big 網状組織s using 1-Wire. I 港／避難所't seen any 最終的な 声明 on what 限界s 存在する regarding topology. (I.e. the layout and 関係s of the wiring.)
People do 報告（する）／憶測 happy experiences with LANs 延長するing over 得点する／非難する／２０s of メーターs.
Coming 支援する to topology: Suppose you want a 気温 sensor in each room of a small house. Do you have to snake a 選び出す／独身 wire in one "line" from A, to B, to C...? No. You can have several on one wire, several on another, others on their own wires. By this I mean that you may have several "strings" of sensors 主要な into the PC from different directions... in LAN 条件, a 星／主役にする topology is 許すd. In electronic 条件, each 1-Wire 装置 is connected in 平行の with all of the other 1-Wire 装置s.....
...but. (Yes, 1-Wire is part of the real world. There's always a but.) The good "but": You can be fancier than 簡単に having everything in one big 逮捕する of 平行の connected 装置s. More on this in a moment. The bad "but:" The bigger your 逮捕する gets, the greater the chances of it not working as it should.
More コンビナート／複合体 逮捕するs can be built using 中心s, which I explain on my 中心s page. They are usually based on the DS2407 switch.
There's an essay about using 中心s in pdf 判型 利用できる from the 先行する link. (I spent many hours on that, 地位，任命するd it to the web, and then forgot to put up any links to it for 5 months! I was beginning to think I'd lost more than the 文書 when I started trying to find it.) There's also a zip とじ込み／提出する with the Delphi source code 述べるd in the article.
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