I’m happy enough to try things out but not necessarily experienced or formally trained to anticipate shortcomings or table better solutions … Here’s what I want to do
I hope to use the Cv outs to drive momentary switch jacks, I’d house relays, a pcb etc and sockets in a small cv powered breakout box so I could use trigs to momentarily send switch contacts, either taps or held states. This is so I could sync some gear which takes tap tempo via simple momentary switches.
Is there anything fundamentally dumb (ie potentially a4 damaging) about the concept or might I happily proceed. Is there an alternative and safe option to using relays? Are relays responsive enough ? Current requirements ? Workable ?
Thoughts ?
I haven’t worked with CV or relays much but my guess is that you would want to have a relay driver circuit between the CV out and the relay. This would also need its own power supply. The relay driver would take care of the current requirements and also handle any flyback from the relay switching.
Another option you could look into would be CMOS switches which you could probably drive directly with the CV outs.
cheers, a few pointers there for me to contemplate, i’d almost certainly give up if the CV signals weren’t suitable for the whole job, i’d assumed there’d be some isolation between the switching side of the relay and the powering and that maybe the relay didn’t take much to get it moving, but it’s this circuit influencing circuit business i’m wary of although ideally i only want to detect the 0>5v side of the pulse and have a very brief contact made, i’ll browse the CMOS suggestion to see where that takes me, thanks
maybe i should ask on muffs …