Space Shuttle
Williams, 1984Having a problem getting the right popbumper too work, on my space shuttle.
I thought it was a switch problem, coil would fire once and then nothing, but started me wondering why do these switches have a resister and cap on them when the rest of the switch's have a cap and diode?
What value is the resistor? The resistor would create a voltage drop.
You don't want to lose voltage here.
Maybe someone in the past replaced the switch diode with a resistor.
Have you tried replacing the resistor with a diode as per the others?
A schematic should confirm what is what.
Quoted from Rikoshay:What value is the resistor? The resistor would create a voltage drop.
You don't want to lose voltage here.
Maybe someone in the past replaced the switch diode with a resistor.
Have you tried replacing the resistor with a diode as per the others?
A schematic should confirm what is what.
Voltage drop doesn't matter at all. Resistor is per design, it just has to keep it above 3ish volts
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