Hello all,
I'm new here, and pretty much signed up just to get some advice on projects I'm working on. Here's the first one I'd like to tackle:
I'm big into drag racing, and have a project car which is rife with electronic hurdles. This project is a "bump box" design, which is used to briefly disengage the transbrake solenoid on an automatic transmission under extreme load. If you're curious, I'm sure YouTube has some videos of people "bumping in" to the staging lights - pretty violent stuff.
Simply put, this circuit is a timed one-shot that controls a solid state relay. I found the easiest way to build this is using an op-amp and adjustable time constant.

The (X) light on the right is a test light for the solid state relay control.
While this all looks good on paper (and everycircuit, which I don't exactly trust), I'd like another set of eyes on it as it needs to be robust. First issue is that the discharge time of the capacitor isn't as quick as I'd like. While staging, the transmission is making LOTS of heat, so the faster you can bump into the staging lights, the better. Also, will this design have enough oomph to engage a solid state relay "coil" repeatedly?
Any advice is greatly appreciated!