Hi!
I have a schematic for something - including some thumbwheels, meaning those BCD coders, with 2 buttons... so you can count from 0 to 9, and have 4 outputs.... what is the symbol for that?
And - if anyone can tell - what is a thumbwheel in Danish or Estonian?
BR Sonnich
I have my BCD switches layed out as 4 switches with a single common and
1,2,4,8 as notations over the appropriate switch bat. All inside a single symbol outline. Hope you can visualize that.Jim
I'd just make a box with 5 pins named 1, 2, 4, 8, and C. If I was feeling artistic, I might try to draw something that looked like the face of the switch in the box.
So did I. But the electricians didn't get it.
BR Sonnich
"jodleren" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:
I was feeling artistic...
Any good?
innews: snipped-for-privacy@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:
Well, yeah... I get it, but does the electric, who has to put this together?
I think I still go for the box.... with C, 1, 2, 4 and 8. They can be "blocked".
BR Sonnich
"jodleren" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:
Why encourage them to be stupid? If they can't get it from the obvious drawing of four switches in a box with a pair of plus/minus buttons on it and a standard acronym for Hexadecimal or Binary Coded Decimal, I doubt they could reliably comprehend the difference between an DPST and an DPDT switch, and they should give up their job for someone who can.
Labelling the pins will be up to you, as the orientation will depend on the most convenient fit in your diagram.
In the vague hope that someone will these symbols useful, I have them in vector form, in PDF files, so they can be scaled and printed accurately.
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