First off, hello everybody, this board is way more detailed then I could ever imagine.
Second off, I have no idea what section my post should be in so I figured I would start in the PC section. I have searched for my problem, but it seems everybody is way farther than I am so hopefully this will help out some newbies.
Finally my problem: I am trying to use this k8055 just to trigger relays. I am very unskilled with electronics like this so its kinda hard for me to figure out and I find it hard to explain. Before I bought this, I used trigger switches to run the relays. They are 12V DC relays if that helps. So what I figure I have to do is wire the relays to the power source, then have them get triggered by the k8055 and stay on, but I have no idea how to do that. Hopefully this makes sense, but we’ll see. Again, sorry if it has been answered before, but I can’t find the answer anywhere so please point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance for any help.
EDIT: not really an edit but I tried something and I think I’m on the right path so I’ll leave that incase it helps somebody help me. I believe I need to make the k8055 a trigger switch. I have all my relays wired up and labeled for my trigger switches (like normally open and normally closed). I figured to get this to work I would run one end of the NO switch into the ground and the other end into the O1 and hit the output 1 on the demo it would work. But before I could hit the switch, the relay would already be active, therefore bypassing the whole ‘switch’ I want.
EDIT2: I tried to make the simple circuit, but I’ve never drawn something like this so it may not be clear. What the simple circuit does is once you hit trigger switch 1 (TS1) it turns on relay 1 (R1). Then TS2 turns on R2 and TS3 turns on R3 and finally TS4 kills all 3 of them. What I want to happen is the k8055 take over the place of the trigger switches. I was fiddling around and I tried putting the normally closed (NC) wire into the input side and the other side to an output. I then hit a the output button on the demo and it work, but only work whenever I did just one switch. If I tried TS1-TS3 and hit first ‘switch’ all three relays activated. I haven’t tried it with the kill switch but I don’t really understand how.
