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Reply to "Simple Capacitor Discharge PCB Switching for Atlas (and other) Switches"

Just ran across this post.  Great job Rod!  I also adopted Dale H.'s capacitance throw philosophy and use it to throw my Atlas switches.  Since I use Arduino control for the trigger source I needed to devise an interface arrangement that worked for my layout.  Our capacitor boards are eerily similar.  The other board is a distribution board that interfaces between the Arduino and the cheap relay boards with opto-isolators available on eBay.  I use the 4 pin header bridge to connect the distribution board to the relay board and 20awg bare copper to form a buss between the relay board and the capacitor board with a 2.2 ohm resistor to the common pole on the relays (prevents sticking contacts).  Glad you've gotten things to work for you.

Barry

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