Continue to Site

Welcome to our site!

Electro Tech is an online community (with over 170,000 members) who enjoy talking about and building electronic circuits, projects and gadgets. To participate you need to register. Registration is free. Click here to register now.

  • Welcome to our site! Electro Tech is an online community (with over 170,000 members) who enjoy talking about and building electronic circuits, projects and gadgets. To participate you need to register. Registration is free. Click here to register now.

How to build a latching relay

Status
Not open for further replies.

SPF4834

New Member
I have several SPDT relays. Is there a way I can use these to build a latching relay. I am using a momentary rf transceiver to send out a pulse of 500 mamps. I need the relay to pull in and stay until I send another pulse to open the circuit. Any help along with a schematic would be helpful
 
The op wants an alternate action latching relay circuit toggled by a single pulse. Those tend to be a somewhat complex circuit with a standard relay. The easiest is probably to use a triggered Flip-Flop to control the relay.

What is the coil voltage and coil current of the relay?
 
I have several SPDT relays. Is there a way I can use these to build a latching relay. I am using a momentary rf transceiver to send out a pulse of 500 mamps. I need the relay to pull in and stay until I send another pulse to open the circuit. Any help along with a schematic would be helpful

Hi

A standard relay with a single SPDT contact is not enough contacts to use relays alone, unless you parallel relays to increase the number of contacts, and that itself raises complexity. You need at least one contact to provide feedback, one contact to latch the relay, and one contact (or more) to drive the load. Simpler to use solid state circuitry to drive the relay. Do you have a part number for the relay and input control voltage requirements?

eT
 
Here is a weird one. I have a board design (in production) it uses the older 1 Form C type relay with the 8 pins the last to for (NO). As you know the coil runs the entire time the PTT or device is activated. I was looing at the Latching relays but how to I get the current input to pulse? Normally it switches / rest sets when the PTT or switch switches off (by grounding) the other two pins? I hope I made sense...

Thanks
 
I hope I made sense...
Sorry, no. Can you post a schematic?
BTW, you've hijacked someone else's thread.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Latest threads

New Articles From Microcontroller Tips

Back
Top