 | | Re: Use RCX motor output to switch devices —Dean Husby
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| | | "Da Byte" <dabyte@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:H1GxyK.5yJ@lugnet.com... (...) for (...) Do you mean something like the following? (URL) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: Use RCX motor output to switch devices —Remko Roodselaar
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| | | | (...) I have seen that site before, yes, but it doesn't exactly describe what I want (although I also could implement relays). I'd like help on the circuit I have built, please. But thanks anyway. Grtz., Remko (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Use RCX motor output to switch devices —Dean Husby
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| | | | "Da Byte" <dabyte@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:H1I03v.n9@lugnet.com... (...) I'm far from any expert but it appears that what you are trying to do is make a solid-state switch. There are two other ways to do this. 1. Use the RCX it's self as (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Use RCX motor output to switch devices —Remko Roodselaar
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| | | | (...) Thanks a lot, Dean! Total electrical isolation is a good idea to achieve what I'm planning to do. I am trying to switch circuits of various Voltages (a 12V circuit at the moment in the form of an IR beamer). Do you have any information on both (...) (22 years ago, 28-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Use RCX motor output to switch devices —Trevyn Watson
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| | | | | You certainly could use the optcoupler out of a computer mouse, but that wouldnt be the best may to do it. They wouldnt be designed with this application in mind, so you might fry the phototransistor if you used too much current, or too high a (...) (22 years ago, 28-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Use RCX motor output to switch devices —Don Wilcher
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| | | | (...) In my "LEGO Mindstorms Interfacing" book published by McGraw-Hill I devote whole chapter (Chapter 4) on Electronic Switching techniques. I describe both input/output switching techiques using npn and Power MOSFET transistors to control RCX and (...) (22 years ago, 28-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Use RCX motor output to switch devices —Remko Roodselaar
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| | | | (...) circuits with the RCX motor outputs? Thanks, Remko (22 years ago, 30-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Use RCX motor output to switch devices —Don Wilcher
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| | | | (...) Remko, Starting on page 144, I start the topic discussion on Electronic Output Switching by describing a detail lab project of an Audible Tone Generator. The core switching circuit consists of using a 7805 Voltage Regulator IC driving a 2 (...) (22 years ago, 31-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Use RCX motor output to switch devices —Remko Roodselaar
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| | | | (...) Wow, I'd sure like to see if I could use it :) Anyway, if I have your purchased your book, would you help me taylor that knowledge to my needs? Thank you Remko (22 years ago, 1-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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