Mr. Arkham
New Member
Hello and thanks for hosting a great forum. I've been looking around through search and couldn't find quite what I was looking for, so here goes:
I'm pretty ignorant regarding electronics in general so please forgive me!
What I'm attempting to do is have some sort of sensor (Hall effect sensor?) that will detect a magnetic field and reverse the current of an electromagnet. The current will remain the same until the sensor detects another magnetic field and then switch again.
I posted this over at All About Circuits Forum as well and have been given a good place to start.
It seems I need a hall effect sensor attached to a SR Flip-flop which in turn is attached to an H-bridge that will reverse the current when the sensor detects magnetism.
The problem is I'm not really sure how to 'wire' all this up. Are there any examples of this already that I may look at?
I thought about designing my own simple h-bridge since it doesn't need to regulate current or anything.. just switch current back and forth.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
I'm pretty ignorant regarding electronics in general so please forgive me!
What I'm attempting to do is have some sort of sensor (Hall effect sensor?) that will detect a magnetic field and reverse the current of an electromagnet. The current will remain the same until the sensor detects another magnetic field and then switch again.
I posted this over at All About Circuits Forum as well and have been given a good place to start.
It seems I need a hall effect sensor attached to a SR Flip-flop which in turn is attached to an H-bridge that will reverse the current when the sensor detects magnetism.
The problem is I'm not really sure how to 'wire' all this up. Are there any examples of this already that I may look at?
I thought about designing my own simple h-bridge since it doesn't need to regulate current or anything.. just switch current back and forth.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,