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Actually lazzer, there are magnetic relays that may do what you say and also do what I want. I just have to learn if I am right. A 120 volt coil may work for me. Looks a little big for me, however. This is my forth edit: X10 modules appear to have a cam latch relay. Maybe I could, if I...

That is really nice of you. Just the part number will do so I can look it up. So Far, I did find one that may be a good choice, but they want $25 for them. It will carry much more of a load than I need. Contacts rated at about max. 5A@110VAC will do for me. Magnecraft Impulsing Sequencing...

I see now that I have had some misconceptions about how latching relays work and am not sure which way might be best for me to go about this. A cam relay would might produce the simplest circuit where a the two coil type has some advantages. I will hunt the web a bit and get back to both of you.

Thanks Carl. I believe Lazzer408's circuit is fine except for one thing. I do not want to maintain current to the coil after the pulse. I intend to use a mechanical latching relay that will keep it's on or off state when power is removed from the coil. Will the relay I picked out in my...

I am making a simple electrically controlled switch. When the power goes off, I want the relay to remain in it's last switched state. That is, if the relay was switched on when the power went off, when the power comes back up, the relay will still be on like a normal wall switch.

It is my understanding that a latching relay retains it's state (the key word here is state) when power is removed. Do I misunderstand?

Thanks for your good reply, but I want the relay to keep its state when power is removed. I was thinking of using this one from Allied Electronics: stock # 788-0351

Thanks. I am still doing design on this and may change the coil rating, etc. About $5-$8 is much better than $25 and I will look at their site.

Hi: I am looking for a 12VDC coil SPST Latching Relay with contacts rated at about 5 amp at 110VAC. Also, I need a 12VDC power transistor to trigger it's coil. Would like these parts to be of reasonable quaility. Could someone please suggest part numbers for the combo and where to get...

I do have an xbox 360. There are at least two reasons for moving to the PC with, in particular, Oblivion. The first is so I can run and create mods. The second is there is a game killing bug in Oblivion called the A-Bomb or animation bug. There is a fix for this on the PC but none I know...

That is a very interesting idea. Something for me to look at in the future. However, on second thought, the PC version of the game Oblivion is not really set up for anything but the keyboard and mouse.

Thanks for the replies. Yes, I, personally, prefer the xbox 360 controller. I am aware of two drivers to do this. The links are: http://xpadder.com/ http://www.vector.co.jp/authors/VA016823/ I was looking for additional suggestions or opinions others may have. Also, some may have...

Could someone suggest a way to use my xbox controller with the pc version of oblivion?

I have a win98 computer that I still run some software on so as not to pay big bucks for the updates. Recently, I purchased a HP2009m LCD display with a screen size of 1600 x 900. The vga output of the computer does not support this screen size and there seems to be no SIS driver update...

I can not help but smile. Yes, They are doing quite well.