Switcher module

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I saw the Switcher module appear in the store today and immediately pulled the trigger.

Can someone help a noob by giving some more details about the six inputs?

Thanks!

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I’m pretty sure they’re binary. So, you’d have something like this:

A0 A1 result
low low 0
high low 1
low high 2
high high 3

But since the switcher goes from 1-4 instead of 0-3, just add 1 to the result in my table. The resulting number is the same as pressing the buttons above. And you’d have a similar table for B0 and B1.

And I’d guess bar-AEN and bar-BEN are for “disable A” and “disable B”, probably turning off the relevant output when receiving a high signal. (High is anything about 0.5V and low is anything below 0.5V, I think.)

Lars/LZX: Please correct me if I’m wrong!

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Thanks for that, it makes sense!

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Check out the LZX Industries account on Twitch, you’ll be pleasantly pleased to find two videos, the 2nd is a highlights vid around 27 minutes long. The other is over an hour :metal:t3:

Edited/Updated to add this URL:

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Ah, so according to that 1hr21min video somewhere around the 25 minute mark, I was kind of wrong. A0/A1 and B0/B1 are indeed binary, but whatever they work out to is added to whatever button is pushed. So if the A channel has button 1 pushed, A0=low and A1=high (so 2 in binary) adds 2 to the selected button (button 1 in this example), so it outputs channel 3.

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That’s interesting! So if I use some outputs from the Turing Machine or Triple Sloths into the inputs of the Switcher, I expect that I will get an ever changing result of video madness! This is going to be fun. Tracking shows mine will be here on Tuesday, I’m already thinking about patching!

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My first thought upon seeing this was that I sorta wished there was also a trigger input for switching to the next channel.

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if you have a castle counter you can.

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Most any clock divider that has a threshold within 0-1V would do!

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Since the video rate switching is somewhat decoupled from the buttons — more a channel offset than straight VC (which is actually pretty awesome) — I guess I was saying it would’ve been cool to also then be able to VC the buttons with a trigger. Such that one could automate the shuffling (like at ~14:35 of the video above).

I know we can’t hug all the cats, but…

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these toys are for the 52hp switcher

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