Hey gang - ben dumpster diving and have been rippin into a heap of printers and 5.25 floppy drives . A lot of interesting components - but sometimes I feel like the native staring at the Coke bottle that fell from the sky in the middle of the desert!
So WHAZZISS? # wires out. (No colors) 2 sides - and a slot the wiper or flipper slides through. Im'm sure its a switch no doubt but where do I hook up the wires? ANy clues - Note I have no shame about my ignorant questions....
heres a pickie (I hope) TIA - Jim Hey that worked! Now if I could just get the tumbnails - no worries...
Experience is the BEST Teacher. Is that why it usually arrives in a shower of sparks, flash of light, loud bang, a cloud of smoke, AND -- a BILL to pay? You usually get it -- just after you need it.
It looks like an opto switch the K side is common to the cathode of the light source and the emitter of the reciever transistor. the anode should be fed through a resistor to the + supply, depending on what voltage you run at and the C collector should have a resistive load to the + supply, with the output taken from the collector, I can give you an example make/type if you need it.
Al
CNC, Mechatronics Integration and Custom Machine Design
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
Albert E.
Al-the-Man
Say thanks for that! The one I'm looking at is ID'd as: HCS-4094V-O. Came out of a floppy - 5.25 in. No luck on Google. Any pointers you got would be helpful I'm sure.
Ynneb - I'll dust of the camera an post in a few.
These seem to be used a lot for 'paper out" on printers and limits in floppy drives - Should be usefull enuf for other bits of work - just keep 'em free of crud. Now I just need to sort out the wiring and resistors/voltages/etc!
Jim
Experience is the BEST Teacher. Is that why it usually arrives in a shower of sparks, flash of light, loud bang, a cloud of smoke, AND -- a BILL to pay? You usually get it -- just after you need it.
Jim, I found a listing under obsolete semi's but no spec's, connect the common cathode/emitter to 5v common, connect a 500ohm resistor from anode to 5v+ and a 500 ohm res to the (C)ollector and put a meter between common and collector and pass something through the slot and you should hopefully see it switch between 0 and ~5v. Some of these slotted opto switches are darlington out but you should see some results.
Al
CNC, Mechatronics Integration and Custom Machine Design
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
Albert E.
Great Al-the -Man!
I'll shag on down to the radio SNack tommorrow and give it a check out.
Thanks! Jim
Experience is the BEST Teacher. Is that why it usually arrives in a shower of sparks, flash of light, loud bang, a cloud of smoke, AND -- a BILL to pay? You usually get it -- just after you need it.
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