I'm currently designing an industrial control panel that I'd like to be as compact as possible, and was looking at interface relays, and was hoping to find a specific feature, but now I'm not sure it exists.
Basically, I'd like a relay module with an extra connection point for the "other" wire to the actuator. ie. the relay will switch the +ve wire, but the module has an extra connection for the 0V wire. This would be bridged to all the other adjacent relay modules with a jumper bar.
The benefits would be:
- Fewer terminals - hopefully cheaper and takes up less space
- Wires from a given actuator terminate right next to each other - tidier and easier to understand and debug.
Another way of describing what I'm looking for would be to combine these two devices: interface relay module & a sensor/actuator terminal block (ground connection to the rail optional):
Does anyone know if such a thing exists?