Looking for broken 6 pos Chip Switch
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Looking for broken 6 pos Chip Switch
I have an experiment I want to do, but I need a 6 pos switch for a tuner. broken preferred. The switches are 50 bucks new. So....
Doubt anyone has a broke one, but if there is that chance.... It will be magnificent if i can get it to work.
Doubt anyone has a broke one, but if there is that chance.... It will be magnificent if i can get it to work.
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I need a switch for our chips to make sure its wired correctly.
But i'm probably going to be destroying it as well, so thats why I'm looking for one that is broken.
I need to see what contacts are being connected when it changes positions.
Let me explain what i'm doing here.
5 rocker switches. You just flip one switch to go to the tune you want.
when they are all off, its your DD tune.
Need 140 instantly? Just flip a switch. Flip it off when you are done.
This is to basically avoid switching past tunes you dont want to dick with when trying to select others.
Like my high idle is number 1 on my switch, but my low idle is 3.
I hate having to switch past low to get to high. But I wouldn't' want to switch past high to get to low.
So. one rocker, and bam!
But i'm probably going to be destroying it as well, so thats why I'm looking for one that is broken.
I need to see what contacts are being connected when it changes positions.
Let me explain what i'm doing here.
5 rocker switches. You just flip one switch to go to the tune you want.
when they are all off, its your DD tune.
Need 140 instantly? Just flip a switch. Flip it off when you are done.
This is to basically avoid switching past tunes you dont want to dick with when trying to select others.
Like my high idle is number 1 on my switch, but my low idle is 3.
I hate having to switch past low to get to high. But I wouldn't' want to switch past high to get to low.
So. one rocker, and bam!
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Got ya. But what if two switches get left on. Will the chip go to number one position or will it damage the switch.
I work at a radioshack and i broke my switch. We sell a rotary switch so i just cut the wires and soldered the new switch to the wires. I was going to try something like this till i found the rotary switch. But i didnt know what the chip would do if to tunes were grounded at the same time.
I work at a radioshack and i broke my switch. We sell a rotary switch so i just cut the wires and soldered the new switch to the wires. I was going to try something like this till i found the rotary switch. But i didnt know what the chip would do if to tunes were grounded at the same time.
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Got ya. But what if two switches get left on. Will the chip go to number one position or will it damage the switch.
I work at a radioshack and i broke my switch. We sell a rotary switch so i just cut the wires and soldered the new switch to the wires. I was going to try something like this till i found the rotary switch. But i didnt know what the chip would do if to tunes were grounded at the same time.
I work at a radioshack and i broke my switch. We sell a rotary switch so i just cut the wires and soldered the new switch to the wires. I was going to try something like this till i found the rotary switch. But i didnt know what the chip would do if to tunes were grounded at the same time.
I've thought of this, but you generally either run your DD tune, or one of the other tunes for a moment.
If I only used a 140 hp tune. i'd just not even bother with the other ones. But. I generally drive in my 65 HP DD, or use high idle or low idle.
Don't even know why i have a 100 hp tune. haha.
so, for the switch flipping, I need to build in something that basically makes that situation impossible if somebody tries to start flipping stuff.
I'm going to have one of my tunes re-burnt to a no start tune as well. cause the smoke tune is sooooooo useless.
Yeah, its way easier how?
You still have to jump around selections to get to them.
re-burning only repositions them.
you still have to pass one of them to get to the other. and i'd personally not like to pass 5 tunes just to get to my low idle..... yada yada.
Trying to avoid useless switching, thats all. =)
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Sounds interesting, let me know if it works out.
FWIW DP Tuner's F5 switcher (maybe the F6 too, not sure), you push a button and it jumps tunes but truck stays in current tune till you let off the button. Then, where it stops is the new tune it actually goes to.
If that makes sense.
So the truck doesn't jump through each tune like the antiquated rotary switch.
FWIW DP Tuner's F5 switcher (maybe the F6 too, not sure), you push a button and it jumps tunes but truck stays in current tune till you let off the button. Then, where it stops is the new tune it actually goes to.
If that makes sense.
So the truck doesn't jump through each tune like the antiquated rotary switch.
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Yeah, and IC or something inside is controlling it.
I'm more of a switch and button kinda guy. the digital displays dont excite me to much. the scan gauge is sorta annoying in this sense, not enough buttons for the features it has.
I'm more of a switch and button kinda guy. the digital displays dont excite me to much. the scan gauge is sorta annoying in this sense, not enough buttons for the features it has.
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Ok so I've been trying to think of a way to use a logic chip to run the inputs through. We have software at school. I'll figure it out tommorow. Ill try to save a schematic if i can make it work.
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You could use 6 or 7 and run some sort of redundant safety setup. Operating an AND logic chip would be easy. Put hot in one input and hook your switch to the other. You would need NAND chips before but u would need someway to put all the switch outputs to it. If you turn on both it goes to 0 and any other combo its at 1. The only problem is each tune would have to be crossed multiple times. Ill see if we have something better in the am at school. I think there may be a 6 input NAND chip that would go to zero if more then one input is hot which could cancel the output and the chip would go to the 1st position. Would save a lot of wiring if there is such.
Sorry if it seems confusing I thinking while i was typing.
Sorry if it seems confusing I thinking while i was typing.
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What about those buttons that are on food processors or blenders. You can only have one of them activated at a time. And there is one that is only activated as long as it is pressed. I know its a crazy idea, but may get you what you are looking for.
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