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Jedi Knight
I'm still fighting the drooling over here, but let me see if I understand:
A SPDT would allow me to control two circuits. In position one, everythign is off. In position two, the PLI and resonator is active. In position three, the whole shebang is active. Yes?
A DPDT would allow me to control two circuits. In position one, everything is off. In position two, the PLI and resonator is active. In position three, everythign is active. Yes? Why use one versus the other?
Now, if using a SPDT switch, how does that work with a pushbutton switch? Push down once to activate the PLI and resonator, push down again to activate everything and push down yet again to shut everythign off?
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Jedi Knight
My head is gonna asplode from all the choices. The customer is being quite vague about how she wants it done, telling me only "I don't care, just so long as everything works". Gee, she's so helpful. Good thing I stand to profit from this fiasco.
I understand a bit more now about the switches. A pushbutton, regardless of how small, might look out of place on this saber, so perhaps a slide or rocker would be best.
I still want two separate circuits, but honestly, which do you think would be more well received and give a better effect...safety circuit arming the PLI and Resonator then a separate circuit to turn the rest on, two independent circuits that must be turned on in the correct order, or a single switch with multiple positions? Personally, I lean towards the safety circuit/power circuit idea or the single switch with multiple positions, but I have digressed. In terms of aesthetic cleanliness, a single switch would be better..
<font color="red">Okay, that settles it...lets go with a single switch, most likely a slide switch that has multiple positions controlling the circuits. How would that diagram look?</font id="red"> <font color="red"> I'm thinking first position forward arms the saber, second position forward turns everything on, and the position all the way back towards the user turns everything off. Sound reasonable?</font id="red">
All I know is what I want it to do...not how best to go about it.
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Jonitus
<font color="red">Okay, that settles it...lets go with a single switch, most likely a slide switch that has multiple positions controlling the circuits. How would that diagram look?</font id="red"> <font color="red"> I'm thinking first position forward arms the saber, second position forward turns everything on, and the position all the way back towards the user turns everything off. Sound reasonable?</font id="red">
All I know is what I want it to do...not how best to go about it.
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Good call, I am working on the same setup but using a rgb led so that one up is blue and two up is red ala hasbro color changer. I need to finish fussin at Comcast but I will draw that up.
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JR do you mean on all the time when the saber is on or all the time as in if there are batteries it hums.
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My goal is to have the PLI and resonator activate when the switch is pushed forward to the first position from "OFF". When the switch is pushed to the second position from "OFF", the PLI and resonator are still active, but so are the sound and the LED driver board. The "OFF" position cuts power to everything, so the saber is "dead".
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Jon I got your setup, I was just tryin to figure out if JR's is the same or not.
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by james3
Jon I got your setup, I was just tryin to figure out if JR's is the same or not.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
I was replying to JR to make sure he knew which way I was going. I should've quoted. My bad.
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