Good afternoon to all. I hope this is going to be a simple request as I am sure you all have much more important circuits to work on.
Basically, long story short, I am working in a 11 - 14V environment (Car) and have a circuit I wish to control that requires MULTIPLE input pulses to activate, but I want to trigger it with a single pulse from 3 different switches...
The circuit I am controlling has a single line in, where it is expecting either 5 pulses, 7 pulses, or 9 pulses within a certain time frame to activate one of three modes.
However, I happen to have a 3 momentary switch panel already installed which I would like to use to control this circuit.
Ideally, I want to be able to press button 1 and release, triggering this new circuit which will output 5 12v pulses to this other circuit... Then If I press button 2, it would accept this as a seperate input and trigger 7 pulses on the output, etc.
I would be ok with the idea if I had to actually have 3 seperate curcuits if one circuit with 3 inputs could not be built... I could simply diode isolate the outputs and still run them all into the existing system... But prefer one to do it all just for simplicity.
So, what, if any options do I have? I have searched all day on circuits and hobby kits I might could adapt to this, with no luck. I really do not mind spending some money on this so it doesnt even have to be a made from scartch circuit unless that is the only option.
P.S. My "electronics engineering" is, well, rusty to say the least...
Basically, long story short, I am working in a 11 - 14V environment (Car) and have a circuit I wish to control that requires MULTIPLE input pulses to activate, but I want to trigger it with a single pulse from 3 different switches...
The circuit I am controlling has a single line in, where it is expecting either 5 pulses, 7 pulses, or 9 pulses within a certain time frame to activate one of three modes.
However, I happen to have a 3 momentary switch panel already installed which I would like to use to control this circuit.
Ideally, I want to be able to press button 1 and release, triggering this new circuit which will output 5 12v pulses to this other circuit... Then If I press button 2, it would accept this as a seperate input and trigger 7 pulses on the output, etc.
I would be ok with the idea if I had to actually have 3 seperate curcuits if one circuit with 3 inputs could not be built... I could simply diode isolate the outputs and still run them all into the existing system... But prefer one to do it all just for simplicity.
So, what, if any options do I have? I have searched all day on circuits and hobby kits I might could adapt to this, with no luck. I really do not mind spending some money on this so it doesnt even have to be a made from scartch circuit unless that is the only option.
P.S. My "electronics engineering" is, well, rusty to say the least...