Cheap protection...

Mike Blakey mike.blakey at bae.co.uk
Sun Mar 26 09:05:07 GMT 2000


Why bother with isolation? DC coupled will be fine.
 Use a voltage divider and do the de-bounce/filtering in software.
 A simple signal diode from input to Vcc will protect your uP as the Vcc is low 
imperance.

                                                        --+--- +5v
                                                            l
                                                            l
                                                        -------
                                                           / \
                                                         /__\      1N4148
                                                            l
                                                            l
                                    +---------+     l 
  12v source    >-----l      13k   l---+------------>  input
          input                 +---------+     l                        to uP
                                                           l
                                                           l
                                                      +-----+
                                                       l         l
                                                       l 10k l
                                                       l         l
                                                      +-----+
                                                           l
                                                           l
                                                           l
                                                       --+-----   GND

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