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How to change politary of a circuit
1makermold:
How could I change the polarity of this circuit, to use PNP transistors
Pooldawg:
--- Quote from: 1makermold on May 29, 2019, 02:33:23 am ---How could I change the polarity of this circuit, to use PNP transistors
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Without seeing what the two rail inputs are doing, it is a little tough.
You can simply swap in the transistor, however your "enable" for the transistor will also be swapped. When it is a low, the transister will turn on, and when it is a high, it will turn off. Vs now it is off when low and on when hi.
This simple video may help you:
MarkF:
Is this for Lionel Model Railroad? Is it DCC?
This takes some thought. I re-arranged the circuit to make it clearer to me.
mikerj:
What is the problem with using NPN transistors?
1makermold:
Yes this is a circuit for Lionel trains that run on 0-18 vac. It is not DCC
What it does is when it gets a signal of positive dc voltage to the outside rail it turns on the optocoupler and it turns on the whistle, I would like to reverse the polarity so when I send a negative dc voltage to the outside rail it would activate a bell.
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