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Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> You are doing well Mark. You can use three voltage comparators to detect which
> voltage level is being output. What you need is three comparators. One for
> 25%, then 50%, and 75%. If 75% is on, then you'll need to gate off the 25% and
> 50% outputs. If 50% is on, you'll need to gate off the 25% output. If 25% is
> not on, then you know you have no power, giving you four levels.
I was thinking that one could just use an ADC to directly convert the
analog voltage level to a digital number of however many bits you could
resolve it to and then taking that binary number to address a demux and
have the demux's outputs drive the switches.
Using a single ADC instead of a comparator for each voltage level would
use far fewer chips, for anything above 4 voltage levels, at the very
least. I'd bet that it's probably completely feasable to individually
drive 16 or maybe even 32 switches from a single RCX port this way.
>> Mark
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