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Post 5 made on Thursday May 28, 2009 at 21:13
Ernie Bornn-Gilman
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You say the Anthem has a pulsed on-off signal. You say "a," so it's one signal. You say on-off, so it's a toggle. One pulse to turn on, same pulse over same wire to turn off.

And yes, the Xantech would have to receive 12 volts as a turn-on signal, then have no voltage, then twelve volts as a turn-off signal, perhaps running the signal throught a CC12 relay.

Come to think of it, 12 volts on could be a nice pulse if you put 50k across the 12 volts, run it through a 100 mfd capacitor, then put 1k from capacitor to ground. The pulse is formed across the 1k resistor. It would take a bit of time before another pulse could be sent, the time it takes for the cap to discharge through the 50k resistor.

It's ridiculous that you had to go through the effort. It's even more ridiculous that a modern device uses pulses to control toggled power. The Anthem is the source of ridiculousness here.
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