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(...) Ok, so I have something that appears to do what I need it to do, however, it is a bit of a monstrosity, and I think that it shows either that I am a genius, or a madman - I'm not sure which! Bear in mind that this still includes several quick (...) (15 years ago, 25-Jan-10, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Last year I built a pneumatic excavator module for a GBC display exactly for this reason: doing it with an RCX would have been like cheating when it could be done mechanically :D As for your 'problem', I've been turning this over in my mind (...) (15 years ago, 23-Jan-10, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Hmm, an interesting solution. (...) But there's the rub! I'm afraid I can't see an obvious way to do that, given that the weight will need to be positioned quite precisely. I will play around with it, though, and see what I can come up with. (...) (15 years ago, 22-Jan-10, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) <snip> Hi Owen, As you say, you want a mechanism where the switch wants to be either on or off, but not in the middle. Had you thought about adding a pivot point at the top of the switch handle, with an axle going up and a weight at the top. (...) (15 years ago, 22-Jan-10, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) SNIP I don't think there is a 'save' way to do that. In fact thats the reason reversal switches have dead space, because you will short circuit stuff otherwise (might be only for a millisecond though). I don't know if you ever worked with some (...) (15 years ago, 22-Jan-10, to lugnet.technic)
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