Rebonjour jonpaul, Merciboucou voltra response!
I'm curious, still, so that's a flash convert, spanning the equivalent of (less than) octal or 3 bits. Octal binary would do 7 individual states. Must have been horribly distorted AUDIO if they converted back !
Did not quite understand the conversion rate mentioned. Sorry, smartphone only, no PC access to read that, (plus, subscription IEEE).
Maybe wouldn't have hurt, if they included a 'dead line' indicator, for input = 0...that being 6th state ?
- Rick (RJHayward)
EDIT:
Also was thinking that the logarithimic scale maybe helped convert (audio) with less perception of distortion? And, sivousplai, which way (log or exp), are the 5 steps, above 0 getting larger and larger, each step? OR, was AC, centered on '3rd' lamp, plus or minus 2 steps?...(that is; -2, -1, 0, +1, +2) ignoring the logarithemic characteristic.)
AND, please, was it really a scrambler, I mean with a 'key Code', in case enemies spy had the hardware design? In other words, just the novelty was considered so 'out-there' as to be secure.