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Re: Relays - plea for help!


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: Relays - plea for help!
  • From: Nigel Orr <nigel.orr@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 08:55:00 +0100
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At 16:23 12/10/99 +0100, you wrote:
>tomorrow evening along with a bulb (to provide a larger load) in
series.

Parallel would be better, again unless I'm missing something... it will
guarantee a load for the triac, to be more than its minimum load (100mA at
240V is 24W), and will sink most of the leakage current when 'off' as a
cold filament has very low resistance.

Nigel
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Nigel Orr                  Research Associate   O   ______
Underwater Acoustics Group,              o / o    \_/(
Dept of Electrical and Electronic Engineering     (_   <   _ (
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne             \______/ \(

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