Seems like your original idea would almost work, now if
you could put a capacitor in series with it you'd get
your "shorting" current briefly, then it would go
away.  Once it did the triac would reset.  Make sure
something bleeds the capacitor off between uses.

Barry

>It's simply shorting two pins on a little fan controller I have made
>here, on the device it brings +5 to Ground to let it know to turn on but
>really, I don't want it to matter... I simple want something that will
>be switchable from: Open circuit -> Closed circuit -> Open circuit in
>1/2 a second or so, nothing complex, nothing elaborate, simply like what
>a relay would do, only no real significant current (uA) or anything will
>flow though this so it doesn't need to be heavy duty at all!
>
>nick@veys.com | www.veys.com/nick
>

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