electronics help req
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From: Camberley, UNITED KINGDOM
building a vehicle with sponson mounted guns, I am using a clarke board and need to switch flash and recoil servo independently for each.Anyone done this before or can point me the right direction
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Off the top of my head I'm thinking Pico switches. You'd need a couple open channels on your RX though. You could Pico the hot wire for the recoil and flash seperately, then turn on/off those switches to get power to those units or shut them down.
https://www.dimensionengineering.com...cts/picoswitch
https://www.dimensionengineering.com...cts/picoswitch
#3

The big draw back to pico switches is that they don't like to be switched on and left there for any length of time - you'd need to be careful to only have them engaged when you wanted to fire, and not have either one or the other 'on' at all times.
Option B would be to use the Turnigy light switch in place of the pico switch to control the live wire (also cheaper too)
Option B would be to use the Turnigy light switch in place of the pico switch to control the live wire (also cheaper too)
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The big draw back to pico switches is that they don't like to be switched on and left there for any length of time - you'd need to be careful to only have them engaged when you wanted to fire, and not have either one or the other 'on' at all times.
Option B would be to use the Turnigy light switch in place of the pico switch to control the live wire (also cheaper too)
Option B would be to use the Turnigy light switch in place of the pico switch to control the live wire (also cheaper too)
#5

That's what I thought, until I suggested to somebody else that he use them to control some lights - who then turned around a month or so later and complained that the relay had given up the ghost... Could have been a bad relay, could have been the idiot wielding the soldering iron, who knows? Not all relays are intended to be left on for long periods, and I concluded that this was probably the case here. At 20 quid a pop I'd certainly prefer to err on the side of caution if it was my money.



