Re: Contact closure

[B☼gus Excepti☼n <pat.trainor@xxxxxxxxx>]

Petem,

This is fiendishly simple... Perfect!

I was already doing all the rest (110vac relay and all), but shorting
a 'Fire' button is really clever. Nobody else thought of that! :)

pat
:)

On Jun 2, 4:50=A0pm, "Petem" <petem...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> You have a cheap and dirty way of doing this...
>
> if you have a simple joystick connected to your computer you could use th=
e
> trigger button to trig a action in a software..
>
> cheap usb joystick are sold below 5$
>
> use a 110 volt relay connected in place if the 110 volt light bulb in the
> detector system and use one of the contact of the relay (n.o.) as the sig=
nal
> to close the trigger button in the joystick i am sure you can find ready
> made routine in .net to monitor a joystick...