[GreenKeys] Keyboard Reperf Wiring
Nick England
navy.radio at gmail.com
Mon Dec 28 10:03:14 EST 2020
You are correct in not wanting to “double-drive” the reperf. So you can
operate in K mode only with Tom’s switch to enable/disable the reperf.
Or install the optional cam that enables mechanical coupling in T mode only
(recommended only for masochists).
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 9:13 AM Steve Garrison <steve.n4tty at gmail.com>
wrote:
> .....I have been unable to find any documentation from Teletype about how
> the reperf is electrically connected. If it can be used to record received
> messages, then it must be driven by the loop that drives the typing unit.
> What then becomes confusing, to me at least, is that if it may also be
> actuated mechanically by the keyboard, then typing would seem to also send
> a signal from the keyboard contacts that goes to the typing unit loop,
> which in turn drives the reperf. So it is like the reperf gets the
> character typed twice. Once in parallel from the codebar extensions and
> also serially via the loop. Am I completely lost? I think so.
>
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Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com
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