Questions tagged [toggle-switch]
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Does anyone know what the symbol or footprint is supposed to look like for this toggle switch?
I'm trying to make a circuit diagram on Eagle and I can't find the symbol or footprint for this particular toggle switch called 5646MAB (first pic). I would custom make it myself on Eagle but I have ...
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SPDT with high amps
I have 3 DC power supplies that can each supply 320 W. Input to these power supplies comes from AC wall power and is gated by an on / off switch.
I have 2 different loads:
DC 35 V, 22 A
DC 35 V, 17 A
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Relay open and close switch button automatically
I have a very simple circuit which consists of a battery, a load (lamp), and a button (on-off).
I want to a very simple and cheap (without Arduino or microcontroller) way to open and close the circuit ...
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Switching the circuit ON and OFF using 50mA rated push button latching switch
I need some help. I want to power the circuit ON and OFF using a 50mA latching push button. The idea I came up with was to use the En pin of the boost converter. I am using it to turn the boost ON and ...
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Home made USB 2.0 device switcher (for mouse/keyboard only)
I did buy some off the shelf ones, but they seem to fail after a few months and or screwing up the USB ports.
I opened the switch box up and noticed that the two power lines were always connected to ...
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Switch ELECTRICALLY SAFE between 3 resistive loads (16 A each) on a 16 A line
How to switch 3 resistive consumers (heaters), each having a current consumption of nearly 16 A alternate & ELECTRICALLY SAFELY (German standards)?
So that only one of them heats at a time and the ...
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230V Light switch to control intensity and drive two bulbs
I'm looking a way to improve a lighting solution.
The idea :
to use a basic electrical switch already present in my room wall (with Line switched by the toggle switch + Neutral not switched) to ...
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DPDT switch to control DPDT relay
this is a bit of a long shot but here goes.
I need to buy a speed controller for an electric ride on car and I've had no success in finding one with a reverse polarity switch and one that also ...
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current spike of a momentary toggle circuit
The toggle circuit below works well, but I noticed that there will be current spike when the switch is closed, i.e., when switch is closed, the two caps will charge each other without resistor in ...
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How to create a USB toggle switch controlled by a GPIO pin
I have a Raspberry Pi set up as NAS. The storage is an external HDD powered through USB. I would like to encase this whole thing in some nice box and still be able to easily use the HDD, without ...
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How to switch between two signals with a digital signal?
I have two different potentiometers. Each sets different voltage reference signal for a current source. How can I make an Arduino or any digital signal to switch between these two potentiometers? (No ...
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Toggle 555 timer IC both with switch and Arduino
I want to use a 555 timer IC (NE55P) as a latching toggle switch. I successfully did it using a switch as described in this toggle 555
schematic:
Except, I am using 5V power with an LED as an output ...
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RC debouncer circuit does not work
I tried two circuits below, neither of them seems to be working (I used a 74LS04 and a 74LS00); the output doesn't change when I press the switch.
I found that the voltage at point "A" doesn'...
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Undervolting magnetically held switches
I have acquired a Honeywell ET series switch (best datasheet I could find) whose holding coil is rated to run on 28 VDC. I know it is often deployed in aeronautical environments where voltage can drop ...
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ON/OFF rocker switches - convention about which side should be top/bottom?
Is there a technical convention (maybe unofficial) as to which side to mount upwards ? I imagine there could be such a guideline, because the marking could rub off or users might have impaired vision.
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