Wednesday, 23 November 2016

switches - Replacing a mechnical switch with a digital one


I have a circuit which allows me to manually (physically) switch between two VGA inputs (PCB push switches) to feed one VGA output (a standard commercial KVM). I want to be able to switch between the two inputs digitally - ie. from an output of my arduino.


I'm happy with everything I need to do from the arduino side of things, but I don't know how I should go about replacing the mechanical switch with a transistor (or even if that's the right thing to use!)


How should I go about making this swap? Thanks!



EDIT: Some photos of the KVM for your viewing pleasure!


From above The switches From beneath




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