Anyone have experience with an RC driven temporary "ON" transistor switch?
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Latching relays need only a brief blip to their coil. Panasonic, Omron G6AK need 10msec pulse. Note that if you bang or bump the relay, it can unlatch so your firmware must bump it and never assume the relay is where you left it.
Had a voltmeter product people would drop and unlatch the range relays so it would then read stupid and get back for repair to our shop.
OP is basically looking for a power-on reset circuit and there are 1,000 ways to skin that cat.Comment
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TBH dangit, i'm too used to cmos and ttl devices where input current limiting is implicit/built-in...aaaahhh...
Latching relays need only a brief blip to their coil. Panasonic, Omron G6AK need 10msec pulse. Note that if you bang or bump the relay, it can unlatch so your firmware must bump it and never assume the relay is where you left it.
Had a voltmeter product people would drop and unlatch the range relays so it would then read stupid and get back for repair to our shop.
OP is basically looking for a power-on reset circuit and there are 1,000 ways to skin that cat.Last edited by eccerr0r; 07-05-2024, 07:39 PM.Comment
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Also in precision voltage measuring gear, you don't want a relay heating up and adding a thermal EMF potential due to the dissimilar metals and thermocouple junctions inside a relay. So you'll see them in high end bench multimeters too.
If a relay (or reed switch) is sticking, I find it's because they get magnetized in one (pole) direction with age, the only one polarity they work in.
I will use an old cassette-tape head demagnetizer, or energize the coil backwards (out of circuit) to fix them. Not sure why but it works. I think some relays though have a bias magnet to make them more sensitive so then AC field would wreck that. Not sure.
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