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Re: DC-DC voltage converter for flashlight
So are the Spikes "just" a straight relay with the coil powered completely from the digital sidecar? Or, are they using the voltage from the input side along with a signal from the sidecar to drive the coil.
The reason I ask - is *if* the coil is powered completely by the side car, then I would think we could wire the 6V from the sidecar's servo control thru a spike that is controlled from the relay control of the sidecar and use the output from the spike to the flashlight.
Everything I have found for the spike relay's shows them wired to 12V, but a straight up relay wouldn't care what that voltage is. I haven't found a circuit diagram of the guts of a spike.
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I just think that if we are going to have rules intended to level the playing field, they shouldn't hurt teams that put the effort in to go the extra mile. - Dave Scheck [more] 
25-03-2013, 14:36
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