Timeline for Relay current flow
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| Mar 28, 2018 at 0:40 | vote | accept | H. Jenkins | ||
| Mar 26, 2018 at 19:24 | comment | added | jsotola |
voltage spike will occur causing arcing on switch contacts .... it does not refer to the relay contacts in your diagram ... if you used a smaller relay, instead of the transistor, to drive the main relay, then the note about arcing would refer to the contacts of the smaller relay ... arcing would happen because of the inductive load of the bigger relay coil
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| Mar 26, 2018 at 18:56 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | They say "don't do this bit" because that relay would need to be listed as equipment (not components) in mains power switching. The UL listing on a relay from Mouser is a "component" listing, not sufficient. Contrast with a RiB relay, which starts with a listed component, but packages it to work in mains wiring methods, and has achieved UL listing as equipment for direct mains use. I wish someone would make more stuff like this for the Raspberry Pi'ers of the world. | |
| Mar 26, 2018 at 18:30 | history | edited | Transistor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Removed "Question about" from the title. Of course it's a question - just state the topic.
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| Mar 26, 2018 at 17:48 | answer | added | D.A.S. | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 26, 2018 at 17:36 | answer | added | Wouter van Ooijen | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 26, 2018 at 17:30 | history | edited | H. Jenkins | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 26, 2018 at 17:24 | history | asked | H. Jenkins | CC BY-SA 3.0 |