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If a signal is fed into Control Voltage with the circuit in monostable mode, it becomes a class D amp. I'll put this note here, this took me a while to understand; the out put of a PWM encoder, to convert back to analog, needs to go through a resistor and a diode, and there needs to be a cap in parallel with the load. | If a signal is fed into Control Voltage with the circuit in monostable mode, it becomes a class D amp. I'll put this note here, this took me a while to understand; the out put of a PWM encoder, to convert back to analog, needs to go through a resistor and a diode, and there needs to be a cap in parallel with the load. | ||
== Questions == | |||
If BOTH trigger is low and threshold is high, which take precedent? Based on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_timer_IC#Bistable bistable] configuration, I believe that threshold takes precedent. | |||
I think that with a pullup resistor, Discharge would behave as !Output. | |||
I don't completely understand Control, it's intended to be used to set, but can we read a voltage there too? Can the control voltage be higher than V+ (to use the 555 to step down an output)? | |||
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Revision as of 17:17, 15 February 2017
Pins
- Ground
- Trigger
- Output
- Reset
- Control Voltage
- Threshold
- Discharge
- Vcc
When the trigger is below 1/3 Vcc, output goes high, and stays high. When the threshold pin goes above 2/3 Vcc, output goes low.
Output can handle up to 200mA.
The control voltage can set the 2/3 level directly. Often it is not used and connected to ground with 10uF cap.
The discharge is a bit confusing. It tied to the collector of a transistor internally. The emitter is tied to the output. So when the output is high, discharge is connected to ground, when output is low, there is high resistance to ground.
Besides the basic modes (monostable, bistable and astable) it can be used for digital logic. The piece that turned me on to this was using it as a temperature controller. Where the 1/3 level corresponds to "turn on the heater" and the 2/3 level corresponds to "turn off the heater". Any logic of that nature.
If a signal is fed into Control Voltage with the circuit in monostable mode, it becomes a class D amp. I'll put this note here, this took me a while to understand; the out put of a PWM encoder, to convert back to analog, needs to go through a resistor and a diode, and there needs to be a cap in parallel with the load.
Questions
If BOTH trigger is low and threshold is high, which take precedent? Based on the bistable configuration, I believe that threshold takes precedent.
I think that with a pullup resistor, Discharge would behave as !Output.
I don't completely understand Control, it's intended to be used to set, but can we read a voltage there too? Can the control voltage be higher than V+ (to use the 555 to step down an output)?