So, picking up on my old thread...
Finally received my much needed relay (took like 4 months). I had already designed the board and put everything on it. So it was already ready to be tested, all it needed was the relay.
So I put it on, hooked it up and it works, sort of... I could use some help debugging...
So here's what it does: let's say the relay has two positions where it latches,the ON position and the OFF position. When I hook up the power supply, nothing happens and the relay remains in the OFF position. When I press the button, the relay latches in the ON position, but when I press it again nothing happens.
When I then remove the power, nothing happens, even if I press the button. When I reconnect the power supply, the relay latches to the OFF position. Now the cycle can be repeated. There's only one other thing: after the relay gets "stuck" in the ON position and I reconnect the power for a brief moment, the relay latches back to the OFF position and the switch then works once without a power source connected. After using the switch without the power connected, the relay switches to the ON position and remains there, even when the button is pressed again or when the power supply is reconnected. It only latches back off when I dis- and reconnect the power once again.
That's about as detailed as I can be...
Where could the problem lie?