I have a simple battery/electromagnet setup. Does anyone know how I could set up a switch to reverse the polarity of the electromagnet? (Besides switching the wires on the battery)
Reverese polarity of electromagnet
Sep 12, 2004
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If it's not centre-off, make sure it's a break-before-make switch!
Tim
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A simple DPDT switch will do the trick: (view with a fixed font)
- --+--o | \----o magnet + | -o | | ---o \----o magnet -
- ----+o
If you take a switch with 3 positions the middle position will turn the magnet off
Sorry, but your schematics do not work. I think this one will be better...
- --+---o | \----o magnet + | +-o | |
- ----+-o | \----o magnet - +---o
Never forget the make a design review ;-) Claude
Now is there any kind of switch that will reverse the polarity of the coil electrically like in this picture?
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Once a current is applied to the red switch, it reverses the polarity of the coil as long as the current is applied. If this sounds ridiculous, don't blame me since I may have no idea what I'm talking about.
your schematics do not work.
The "red switch" would be a double pole, double throw relay, with its contacts wired as shown above (but you'd probably also want another switch to turn the coil off...)
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This is seb; don't worry about it.
Here's one way to do it:
BAT+>--------+---------------------------+--O--> | S1
| | |
BAT->----+-----------------+ | O
| | NC K1A NO | NC K1B NO| |
| O-->\ \
Could you refer me to more specific information about a double pole, double throw relay? Thanks.
See
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?Ref=255055&Row=258133&Site=US or search
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for "dpdt relay"
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