Okay, so I am working on a way to light a series of lights for my a project I am working on. here is what I am trying to do.
the lights are meant to be attached to circuit that comes on when triggered my something else. While I want this to happen, I want to have the choice to override this and have them be always on.
I am not familiar with a DPST switch, but from what I believe, you can have two power sources and choose between the two with a switch?
For this case I would have the dimmer source which is not always on, and an always on source.
So when I wanted them to be controlled by the thing that will turn them on or off, I could flip to that on the switch, or if I want them to just be on I can flip to the other part of the switch.
Is this how this works?
Is there a better way?
Please help me because I am such an amateur
Okay, in case that didn't make much sense, if you follow this link:
http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_4/chpt_4/1.html
and scroll down to selector switch that is what I am talking about. It can select between two different power sources, and output to the same device( in this case the lights).
the lights are meant to be attached to circuit that comes on when triggered my something else. While I want this to happen, I want to have the choice to override this and have them be always on.
I am not familiar with a DPST switch, but from what I believe, you can have two power sources and choose between the two with a switch?
For this case I would have the dimmer source which is not always on, and an always on source.
So when I wanted them to be controlled by the thing that will turn them on or off, I could flip to that on the switch, or if I want them to just be on I can flip to the other part of the switch.
Is this how this works?
Is there a better way?
Please help me because I am such an amateur
Okay, in case that didn't make much sense, if you follow this link:
http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_4/chpt_4/1.html
and scroll down to selector switch that is what I am talking about. It can select between two different power sources, and output to the same device( in this case the lights).
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