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Home made electronic timer

Post by Mindless Automaton » Thu Sep 26, 2019 7:29 am

Hello grumpy old people that think money is more important than life.
Now what would be really controversial? An E-timer!

So I made my own. Just to make people mad.
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It's an arduino. That they use to teach programming to children.

And a few hall effect sensors, and MOSFETs.
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It runs, it drives.

For coils I used old decaying ones that had open secondaries and no points at all. Nobody else thought they'd amount to anything. Work really well after all.
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Never ran so smooth.
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Re: Home made electronic timer

Post by TonyB » Sat Sep 28, 2019 12:38 am

Tell us more or have you become preoccupied with some young ladies😎
Then tell us more now autumn has arrived😊
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Re: Home made electronic timer

Post by Duey_C » Sat Sep 28, 2019 2:32 am

Kep is King! Of the cheap... Been there.
Cool stuff Kep.
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Re: Home made electronic timer

Post by Mark Osterman » Sat Sep 28, 2019 5:54 am

You sure it’s not some old bomb from the IRA ?
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Re: Home made electronic timer

Post by mvweaver » Mon Sep 30, 2019 11:56 am

Very crude looking time on the outside, but ingenious!! Let us know how it holds up. - Matt
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Re: Home made electronic timer

Post by brucesp » Mon Sep 30, 2019 12:32 pm

Excellent! Just curious - why MOSFETs instead of triacs?
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Re: Home made electronic timer

Post by SurfCityGene » Mon Sep 30, 2019 5:15 pm

Mindless, make sure you run plenty of grease inside that timer like originals. Watch out for infringing on the "Big Company's" patent rights or the lawyers will have fun. Did you disable your magneto? Looks pretty Cool!! Smarter than the ave. T!!
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Re: Home made electronic timer

Post by John E. Guitar » Thu Oct 03, 2019 5:10 am

Interesting stuff.

I had a look at your YouTube channel. Is that a Sachs rotary engine on your bicycle? I picked up one of those a few years back but haven’t worked out what to do with it.
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