Muttley600
New Member
Hi All
Please point me in the right direction if I'm in the wrong place
You know when you have a brainwave then hit a stumbling block well, Ive just hit the block
If I explain what I'm trying to do, then hopefully you can tell if it will work or not.
I have made a little box to supply power for gadgets on my motorbike, it was all going well, I know to fuse each supply, then I had this great idea of putting a LED to show if fuse blown or not (I'm trying to keep it all in a very small plastic box) then I thought wouldn't it be good if LED only light up when the jack is connected, I don't really want to put switches in as they could get knocked & the only dc sockets I can find have closed ciruits meaning the LED is on once power is in the box.
Edit: Sockets have outgoing power with jacks on toys
These are the sockets
Is it possible to do what I want, do they make a open circuit dc socket, I've looked but can't find one.
Hope someone can tell me if I'm barking up the wrong tree
Thanks
Graham
Please point me in the right direction if I'm in the wrong place
You know when you have a brainwave then hit a stumbling block well, Ive just hit the block
If I explain what I'm trying to do, then hopefully you can tell if it will work or not.
I have made a little box to supply power for gadgets on my motorbike, it was all going well, I know to fuse each supply, then I had this great idea of putting a LED to show if fuse blown or not (I'm trying to keep it all in a very small plastic box) then I thought wouldn't it be good if LED only light up when the jack is connected, I don't really want to put switches in as they could get knocked & the only dc sockets I can find have closed ciruits meaning the LED is on once power is in the box.
Edit: Sockets have outgoing power with jacks on toys
These are the sockets
Is it possible to do what I want, do they make a open circuit dc socket, I've looked but can't find one.
Hope someone can tell me if I'm barking up the wrong tree
Thanks
Graham
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