 | | Re: Tripping a relay. —Dan Novy
| | | | If you hit a 5v latching relay with 9v, will it damage it? (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Tripping a relay. —Bruce Boyes
| | | | | Quoting Dan Novy <dan@flashfilmworks.com>: (...) If you mean the coil, 9V is 180% of 5V rated coil voltage. The issue is the total power dissipated in the coil. If you only pulse the relay at a very low duty cycle at room temp, it won't ever build (...) (19 years ago, 23-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Tripping a relay. —Dan Novy
| | | | | So, all our discussion was for naught. Upon arriving, the Black Rock Playa of northern Nevada ate my driver/inverter for my ELWire, so I never got to even try my RCX based photo sensitive switch. Oh, well, now I have the time to do it right.... (19 years ago, 6-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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