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Any help appreciated to hook up a Pir motion sensor and light


meteor32

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First, I unfortunately don't have a lot of experience in this field but I'm doing my best to work this out and learn something, that said, here's my problem.
I am trying to use a wireless Pir sensor receiver to trigger a strobe light using a Elk 960 time delay module for light 'on' 'off' timing.
The receiver has two connectors one 'n/o' and one 'com' to send signal 'light on/off'. These relay outputs have no power of their own. The strobe must have its own power (strobe needs 12 to 80 vdc).
So I bought a 12vdc 1000ma adapter, connected adapter to Pir receiver relay contacts, connected delay timer to receiver outlets and strobe light. Bingo! sensor worked, fired delay timer and strobe. Here's the problem the Pir receiver only sends a three second burst of power..... after initial burst there's no power to timer or strobe. How do I utilze this reciever to send a signal, power the timer and light all at the same time. Is there some way to hook up another power supply to power timer and strobe, or use another powered switch if so how and in what order. Or am I just nuts. Help, is there any way out of this?
Whew! sorry about that.

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ya just have the pir send its 3 second pulse to a 555 configured as a monostable multivibrator that sounds complicated but it realy isent the 555 basicly when it recieves a pulse it will send out a pulse of its own depending or the resistor capiccitor combination you made so just look in teh downloads section and there are some 555 calculators that will tell you what resistors and capictors and give you the circuit too just hook the out put from the pir to the trigger and the output on the 555 to the base of a NPN transistor through probably a 1k resistor most general purpous transistors will work and the collector of the transistor to the powersupply and the emiter to the relay hope i helped sorry for no periods but it is kind of early and hard for me to think right

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