Onli-Won Kanomi
12-11-2008, 09:29 PM
Hi folks,
I have a Ultrasound 1 and a TCSS PLI and I want to wire them using two switches so that one switch will activate the saber light & sound in normal fashion but with the other switch wired 'independently' in such a way that it will ONLY activate the PLI alone while the saber remains 'unignited'...and I'm having a 'brain freeze'/'attack of stupiditis' on how to wire that.
If I wire it from the normal LED outs of the US 1 then I'd have to ignite the saber to check the PLI?...not what I want.
If I wire it between the battery and board I'd have to use a latching switch and activate the PLI switch first then the main switch in a 2 step procedure when I wanted to activate the saber?...not optimal.
[besides wouldnt that also act as a 'kill switch' on the board? Not exactly what I was looking for...though I have heard kill switches arent a bad idea on the US 2.0 and I do have a couple of those coming so if theres no way to make this work as I want with a US1 then I'd consider that with the US2]
What I really want is to be able to tap one momentary switch by itself to check the PLI only without igniting the saber OR be able to tap the other momentary switch by itself to ignite the saber only without activating the PLI...hope I explained that clearly...because I'm not at all clear how to wire that or if it even can be done with a US1
Any suggestions would be deeply appreciated...a wiring diagram even more so because my wee noggin just isn't visualizing how to.
Thanks in advance,
Onli-Won
I have a Ultrasound 1 and a TCSS PLI and I want to wire them using two switches so that one switch will activate the saber light & sound in normal fashion but with the other switch wired 'independently' in such a way that it will ONLY activate the PLI alone while the saber remains 'unignited'...and I'm having a 'brain freeze'/'attack of stupiditis' on how to wire that.
If I wire it from the normal LED outs of the US 1 then I'd have to ignite the saber to check the PLI?...not what I want.
If I wire it between the battery and board I'd have to use a latching switch and activate the PLI switch first then the main switch in a 2 step procedure when I wanted to activate the saber?...not optimal.
[besides wouldnt that also act as a 'kill switch' on the board? Not exactly what I was looking for...though I have heard kill switches arent a bad idea on the US 2.0 and I do have a couple of those coming so if theres no way to make this work as I want with a US1 then I'd consider that with the US2]
What I really want is to be able to tap one momentary switch by itself to check the PLI only without igniting the saber OR be able to tap the other momentary switch by itself to ignite the saber only without activating the PLI...hope I explained that clearly...because I'm not at all clear how to wire that or if it even can be done with a US1
Any suggestions would be deeply appreciated...a wiring diagram even more so because my wee noggin just isn't visualizing how to.
Thanks in advance,
Onli-Won