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From: king@dciem.UUCP (Stephen King)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: 555 timer duty cycle
Message-ID: <2554@dciem.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Nov-87 07:58:06 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 27 07:58:06 1987
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Reply-To: king@dciem.UUCP (Stephen King)
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Summary: 

In article <9376@shemp.UCLA.EDU> khayo@MATH.UCLA.EDU (Erazm J. Behr) writes:
>Is there any way to wire the 555 to get an "on" time of
>less than 50% of the cycle? <...>

Yup. I did this at school some time ago, let's see if I remember...Oh, yes!
I used a pair of diodes to route discharge current for the timing capacitor
through a different resistor than the one used for charging. Good enough?
						...sjk
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