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Tom Boon's Sofa Control Switches

3/25/2022 - Tom purchased a large sofa-recliner set for his living room a couple of months ago. The switch panel for the right chair was damaged and wouldn't work. The switches were small metal pieces that form a touch-sensitive circuit. I built a box via 3D printing with switches in it as a replacement.

There are two similar but different “systems,” one for each chair. The working one has conventional switches on the left side. Both systems have a 24-28 VAC adaptor. The control circuitry then controls the leg and head rests, in and out. This assumedly works by changing the polarity.

I wired my switches into the touch-sensitive circuit, and it did not work reliably. I think it was expecting AC high-impediance current, so what I did was different. I took detailed pictures of the circuit to see if I can wire my switches in to the relays more directly (bypassing the touch-sensitive part).

Bridge Rectifier

Relay (4 of them)

Relay Schematic (bottom view)

Circuit Board with Annotations

tom/sofacontrolswitches.1648271330.txt.gz · Last modified: 2022/03/26 05:08 by dwheele