Comments on: More power socket fiddling http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/10/16/more-power-socket-fiddling/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:04:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Nick1911 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/10/16/more-power-socket-fiddling/#comment-96 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:34:41 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/10/16/more-power-socket-fiddling/#comment-96 And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we have relays! The same $5-off-ebay solid state relay that my Pentium-133 uses to turn on my coffee machine in the morning could easily be adapted to let motion lights control a whopping 40 Amps at 240 VAC. What, exactly, you intend on controlling that draws 40 Amps via motion sensor is another topic entirely… And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we have relays! The same $5-off-ebay solid state relay that my Pentium-133 uses to turn on my coffee machine in the morning could easily be adapted to let motion lights control a whopping 40 Amps at 240 VAC.

What, exactly, you intend on controlling that draws 40 Amps via motion sensor is another topic entirely…

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