how to close the circuit by relay with a pulse and my circuit stay closed until another pulse comes

Question

I am new in this kind of stuff so please excuse me for my lack of knowledge and English Language :)

I have an old car and I want to make a circuit with an LED that lights when car is switched on and doors locked, LED is turned on otherwise turned off , and when car is off and doors are locked, LED is flashing...

My car gives a pulse when trigger lock and one for Unlock so I need this pulse to turn LED On and stay on until Unlock pulse arrives. I am thinking of a latching relay ? or some sort of timer? or a D type flip flop ? What would be the best approach?

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my car is : Peugeot 206 for year 2004

I want replace the Flasher Button from dashboard With two function Button like this:

I do this, and attached wires,But the LED not works

Answer 1

The simplest solution is using a dual coil latching relay, like this one. No, I don't work at Fujitsu I just happened to use that relay a couple of times.

How does this work?

Instead of the usual single coil the relay has two coils: one to 'set' it and the other to 'reset' it. When a sufficiently long (some 20ms)pulse is applied to coil A the switch is set to position A, while when you excite coil B switch toggles to B position.

The component is quite pricey but I am sure you can find something better, since you only need to turn on a single LED.

Answer 2

Someone in the comments mentioned a latching relay, but the problem with those is that you need quite a bit of support circuitry to make them work. In your case, you'd need a micro to keep track of the pulses.

Then I realized, that there must be a product that has all that, so I googled for "pulse control relay" and found this product: MD-D1022A/12V (datasheet). It works from 12V and has a pulse input, so should be ideal for your application.

EDIT: As has been pointed out to me in the comments, you do have two separate pulses, so a two-coil latching relay would work. I will keep my answer, though, as it offers a different route that does not require any soldering and has additional functionality (i.e. works with a single pulse as well as with two separate SET/RESET pulses).

Answer 3

it seems to me that you want a 2-coil latching relay that will operate from 12V connect the coils to the central locking circuit in the obvious way.

^{simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab}

power comes from the clock circuit which is always on and powers the radio's memory and the clock and similar always on accessories, the ignition circuit (which powers the engine electronics) is tspped to detect when the engine is turned on and that is used to stall the 555, the two inouts at the top are for the lock and unlock pulses from the central locking circuit the unusual D2 is to ensure that it won't blink when the engine is running.