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2x Twister BER measurement

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Measuring or estimating Bit Error Rate (BER) of 2x Ronja Twister.

INFO

Requirements

Warning!

Warning

If you don't interconnect the Twisters exactly as described, it may mysteriously fail to work or have packetloss.
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Without capacitors

If you have 520mA @12V regulated power supply, connect the Twisters as in the picture.

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With capacitors

Otherwise you have to connect them using capacitors. Connect separate power supply to each Twister.

ronjaping

If you have Linux where C programs can be compiled on one PC, then perform the ronjaping variant.

ping

Otherwise perform the ping variant.

Evaluation

BER should be under 10^-9. If it's worse, then something is wrong with the electronics.
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