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Re: Toggle switches to Analog board?

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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz View Post
If you are going to the analog board, it does not have pull up resistors so you have to use the SPDT to switch between +5 and zero volts. If you use a digital input, the pullup would allow you to simply open or close a connection to the common to give two states.
Attached is a picture for SPST (Al, please correct me if I am wrong but this should give him two states (Closed =0v Open=~5v) using a Single Pole Single throw switch on the Analog inputs which seems to be what he wants to do.
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