Solid State Relay Warning and Observation

[@ralphj4012]

Thanks for the insight. Yes, the issue with any SSR design is that most include internal snubbers which result in some leakage, also a minimum load / current requirement. There are some SSRs which exclude the snubber and MOSFET based SSR's with very low leakage but they are not the ''everyday types'.

[@MikeMakesIt]

Hi Ralph and thanks for the comments. It was a bit of an eye opener for me with regards to the wasted electricity. Now I'm wiser 😀. Thanks for watching 👍🏽

[@ralphj4012]

@@MikeMakesIt Ah, not just the wasted electricity but sufficient leakage current through the internal snubber to turn some things on, especially ac-based low-power loads. There is a document from Omron, Solid State Relays Common Precautions, if you have a day spare.

[@MikeMakesIt]

@@ralphj4012 thanks Ralph. I’ll take a look 👍🏽😀

[@pavelaevii6687]

At an Energy control devices fabricator i obsserve that at start they was using SSR mounted on aluminium dissipating radiators. Of coars they was feeding heating ellements and the leaking was irelevant. The isue with SSRes was that they was having a heat dissipating rate a bit defficient since eve if mounted on radiator they was bursting every so often we had to go at customer's facities for troubblechoot. As soon we found that the SCR eas the sollution we started to change in the control panels for free all the compromised SSR c.troles. How ever, we made a long way from contactor c.trole with mobile and clapy parts.

[@paulp96275]

Nice one Mike don’t tell the wife your saving money on electric a bit of creative accounting will give you more to spend on more projects stay safe 😂👍👨🏻‍🏭

[@MikeMakesIt]

Very true. Nice idea, thanks Paul 👍🏽👍🏽