Ronedwards
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Hey there folks....OK...guess the best way to present this is to start at a familiar point. I have a logic board- mostly logic gate chips- no matter whether TTL or CMOS (have power situation solved) ...bear with me a moment...I can pass a logic high from chip B to chip ZZ on the board by using a single wire from the output of the gate on B chip to the input of the gate on ZZ chip. The logic high needs no timing signals or such, merely high or lo ...now...suppose B chip were to be located on a different pc board than ZZ chip that was also electrically isolated. The two pc boards cannot share a common powergrid. I have tried doing this between two breadboards and cannot get it to work so I am assuming the two chips involved need to share common positive and negative power sources to both chips to enable a digital logic signal high or lo to be passed between the two chips. I need to do this with minimal circuitry (no processors or timing/sync signals available) and almost the only chips available are logic gate ic's. I would rather not have to use logic level relays as this application will need single signals going both ways in a very large number of situations.