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Halloween Prop Menu : Repeating Event Control Timer Repeating ECT
Here is a list of the parts that you need:
Below is a picture of the finished product. The knob on the left (R2) is used to control the amount of time the effect is activated (from 2 to 30 seconds) and the knob to the right (R1) controls how long between activation cycles (from 2 seconds to 4.5 minutes). The timing cycles can be made to last longer by replacing the appropriate potentiometer with a higher valued one, however, the values listed listed above in the parts list seemed to work the best for me. An indicator LED in the middle of the box displays when the power is on and the timer is running. Coming out of the right side of the box is a cord with a plug at the end. Since this plug is hooked directly to the contacts of the relay inside the project box, you can hook it up to whatever you want to activate, in the same way that you would hook the effect up to a toggle switch.
The relay used in this project had contacts that are capable of handling 2 amperes at 120VAC, which is more than enough to control the fog machine that I hooked it to. I took apart the remote switch box for activating the fog machine (see picture below). Inside, I hooked up a 1/4" mono jack, in parallel with the original fog machine activation switch. Hooking up the 1/4" jack in parallel with the switch allowed me to activate the fog machine manually, or I could let the timer do it.
In order to build this timer circuit, you must wire it up using the schematic below.
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