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Subject: 
Re: reed switch/codepilot question
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics.codepilot, lugnet.trains
Date: 
Wed, 25 Feb 2004 00:43:02 GMT
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yeah, it should, as both a touch switch and a reed switch ar digital
switches, they can only give a 1 or a 0 to the codepilot

Bob Clough

Gail Meagher wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I was looking at using a reed switch to control some train stuff.
> Unfortunately I only have a codepilot rather than an RCX.  The codepilot
> accepts touch sensors.  I've read (
> http://news.lugnet.com/trains/?n=22378 ) that you tell the RCX to treat
> the reed as a touch sensor.
> 
> My question is, will the codepilot accept the signals from a reed
> switch?  Is there anyone out there who has both a reed switch (wired
> with a LEGO connector) and a codepilot who could try this to save me
> lots of time and effort?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Gail Meagher



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  reed switch/codepilot question
 
Greetings, I was looking at using a reed switch to control some train stuff. Unfortunately I only have a codepilot rather than an RCX. The codepilot accepts touch sensors. I've read ( (URL) ) that you tell the RCX to treat the reed as a touch (...) (23 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.codepilot, lugnet.trains)

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