the best way is to get a qed toy controller or an Ablenet powerlink you can
then have the switch behave as a direct switch or timed or as a latching
switch
Deborah Jans
Coordinator
KEYCOMM
Lothian Communication Technology Service
Oaklands School Annexe
40 Broomhouse Crescent
Edinburgh
EH11 3UB
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> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 11:54 am
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> Subject: Switch Control of CD player
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> I have had an enquiry about the use of a standard CD player for cause and
> effect training. The enquirer wants an inexpensive way of having a switch
>
> to start a CD playing and then after a set time have it stop playing
> (pause). The user would then have to press the switch again to un-pause
> the music.
>
> I have talked about environmental control or IR control systems and use of
>
> computers as players to do this but the enquirer wants a stand-alone
> device
> to go home with the user.
>
> I thought that a QED toy controller or similar wired into the pause button
>
> or the remote controller, but that would not work because this would hold
> the pause button down after a switch press, so the control would be in
> effect a latching switch and no advance on wiring the switch in directly.
>
> Any Ideas?
>
> David
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