Re: Re: Solid state relays - how to use them?

[Neil Fuller <neil.fuller@xxxxxxxxx>]

  Just make sure you route all cables through stuffing glands so no
one
can stick their fingers in!

On 27/09/2010 22:50, bifferos wrote:
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> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>,
Neil
> Fuller <neil.fuller@...> wrote:
> > DIN rail is only 70p/M if you buy it from the right place and
>
> I was thinking that DIN was too expensive because then I'd need DIN
> SSRs, and then there'd be issues attaching heat sinks and so on, but
> you're right - I could just use the DIN rail for termination and
> nothing else. In that case though, a terminal strip could be used
> instead and would be even cheaper. I was wanting to avoid if possible
> a bunch of screw holes sticking out the back of the box.
>
> If I introduce a metal plate inside the enclosure to mount everything
> on then I lose some of the heat dissipation properties of the
> enclosure, hence the reason for looking for something ready-made.
>
> Anyhow, thanks for the link, those are very cheap DIN rails, and
> coupled with something like
> http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/BX663G.html
would be a reasonably
> cheap solution. I still have to connect an earth though, meaning yet
> another hole :-(.
>
> Biff.
>
>


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