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Re: Lights to help aim

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Originally Posted by JesseK View Post
I need to do more than a cursory look at electronics for legality, but is it possible to run two flashlights off of one spike relay? We'd like to run one flashlight off of the positive signal and a different flashlight off of the negative signal.
That will work fine. Use the Spike's M+ terminal as the "plus" for one flashlight, the M- terminal as the "plus" for the other, and connect the "minus" of both flashlights to the V- terminal where the ground wire is coming from the PDP. You'll need to know that setting the Spike FORWARD will turn on one light, setting it REVERSE will turn on the other, and setting it ON will turn them both on. OFF will of course turn them both off.

It used to be normal to run two pneumatic solenoid valves from one Spike in exactly this way.
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