RE: LRO: Slowing down windscreen wipers

From: Alan Richer/CAM/Lotus (Alan_Richer@Lotus.com)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 11:38:24 EDT

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    The idea with the park position sensor, is that the intermittent wipe is
    achieved by a PWM with a variable frequency in the O to .5Hz and a variable
    mark space ratio between 0 and 100%. . Thus .1 hz at 50% would give 5 secs
    on and 5 secs off, at 10% would give 1 sec on 9 secs off. at 100% always on
    at 0% always off. etc

    You work too hard - that can easily be achieved with a simple timer circuit
    outputting a fixed-duration pulse at a variable timing window. With the
    park position available as you say, a simple relay-driving pulser would do
    the job here.

    a 555 set up as an astable multivibrator would be just the ticket...

                             aj"Tech weenies R. Us"r



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