"three phase" sig gen?

[Magnus Danielson]

>>>>> "MZ" == Merlin Zener <merlin at ion.com.au> writes:

 MZ> Thanks to the people who've already offered helpful replies:)
 MZ> I was kind of hoping for a transistor-only solution - a little
 MZ> more robust, I think.
 MZ> Kind of a three-way flipflop...

Well, if you set up three single-pulse generators with the same time
and let them trigg each other I think you can get away with quite few
transistors. Ensure that you bootstrap one as "high" and two as "low".
The time-constant for each of them will set their time of the period
so that when you sum their time-constants up you get the total period
time.

This form of triggered single pulse generator should not be that
difficult to find, basically quite similar to the 2-transistor
astabile multivibrator.

Cheers,
Magnus