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Help with a circuit - control multiple relays using 2 conductors.
Hi all. Thanks in advance for any help you can give. Please note my
email address is invalid - this is to stop spam. Reply to gazman at pobox dot com to email me directly. Here's my problem : My front gate is 150M from the house and I will have an intercom and system to open the gates, turn on the lights, etc etc. I ran two Cat 5E cables (total 16 conductors) underground. Somehow one of the cables has been cut, so I have only 8 conductors left. The intercom requires 5 of these, so I have just 3 conductors to control the gates, lights, fountain etc as well as send a signal back to the house to indicate what position the gate is in. So I need a circuit that can send a coded signal down the wire, which is decoded at the other end to open or close a relay. My suggestion is this : At the house, each of 6 control buttons sends a signal down the wire at a unique frequency. At the gate a circuit detects the signal, and according to its frequency, toggles one of 6 relays. That way, multiple relays can be activated using just a pair of wires. It would NEVER occur that two control buttons are pressed at the same time. There are other ways of coding the signal (pulse count for example) and I have used frequency just as an example. Does anybody know where I can find a circuit to do this sort of thing? I have searched the web without success. Thanks in advance. Gaz |
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