Ive got a smoothingcapacitor(2,2uF) C1 in parallell with relaycoils inside a fullwave diodebrigde.

When circuit is closed trough contacts in pre-relay RLY1 it first gives me, almost everytime because of capacitive reactance in circuit(Ce of C1 and C2), an Arc1 over the contacts of the pre-relay, when circuit is closed. But if I place a resistor R1 infront of capacitor C1 for limiting the inrush charge current of the smoothingcapacitor it will in very short backfires into the resistors R2 & R3 and destroy them. Leading to none zenervoltage.

Placing a diode in parallell with resistor R1 for bypassing of the charge current in one direction will end up in almost the same way with destroyed resistors R2 & R3, but not until after almost 1000 tries.

Why is this happening and how to stabilize the circuit so the smoothingcapacitor isnt giving me an arc in either the pre-relay contacts neither backfire into the resistors. Because of C2 theres around 45-50VDC left inside diodebrigde. Any ideas?

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