A different way to Auto – Power – On your lilliput - Page 3

intense · 05-05-2005, 11:29 AM

you actually have the relay mod hooked up to the monitor and it is working with 100 uF ? i think you mean 1000 Uf right? 100 uf would be less than 10th of a second .....

I haven't taken my monitor apart yet so I haven't been able to test it with the monitor. Normally you hold the power button for about 1 second.

I know the 10k resistor works fine ... but try to turn your monitor on and off and then on again through the relay quickly. It takes about 10 seconds for the 10k resistor to drain the cap. You will see that it takes about 10 seconds for the relay circuit to reset.

Arathranar · 05-05-2005, 11:39 AM

No, 100uF (2 zeros). It's working great. Even before I added the capacitor, I needed to press the power button only very briefly - certainly nowhere near a second. I can definitely turn it off and on again within 10 seconds although I haven't actively tested that that's just what I did when I was first confirming the buttons still worked after the mod. I can easily do a more measured test of how rapidly I can turn the monitor on/off with the capacitor in place.

intense · 05-05-2005, 11:49 AM

Wait .... which mod did you do? are you talking about coyotes approach, where you left the 10k resistor onboard the lilliput PCB and you just added a 100 uf cap in coyotes diagram? Because coyotes resistor and capacitor values have NOTHING to do with this circuit.