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Timer circuit to control coaxial switch

Babae

Feb 4, 2014
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I am trying to come up with a simple circuit design that can time-control the control voltages (~3.5V) of a SPDT coaxial switch such as this one:

http://www.minicircuits.com/pdfs/ZX80-DR230+.pdf


The objective is simple - to have the switch go switch from RFin1 to RFin2 and vice versa every N seconds (in magnitude of 10s of secs). Unfortunately I am not that knowledge in circuit design so I have no come up with a solid idea yet. I was thinking of implementing a simple LM555 circuit. Would that work? What about a binary/bcd counter? The biggest concern I have is how to implement and synchronize the two control voltages.
 

duke37

Jan 9, 2011
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If all you want is change over, then you will need to energise one or other of the control lines.
This could be done with a 555 and a transistor to invert the output to one line. A 555 will need a much higher voltage than the relay requires so some attenuation would be necessary.

A CMOS 4093 can be used as an oscillator and inverter and will operate down to 3V.

How accurate or consistent do you need N?
 
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