Thread: Use of Arduino to control a Spike Relay
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Unread 05-07-2011, 11:06
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Re: Use of Arduino to control a Spike Relay
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Originally Posted by docdavies View Post
Al,

Can you tell me then how much the relay lines from the digital side car can source? My searches have led to mentions of from 2-100 mA. And that would be from the DSC side not the cRIO.

G,

I'll look into those components....but I am but a poor biochemist, with little electronics training... Looking at those specs and little symbols gives me a tremendous head ache.....

I never thought such a simple question could be so complicated!
According to this from the first website the relay outputs from the DSC can source 7.5mA each.

To add to that in the past I have ran a spike connected directly to 2 DIO lines on a microchip part which could only source 20mA per line and it worked fine (back when i just assumed an optoisolator would not pull 65mA)

Theres seems to be something simple were missing here that hopefully someone can explain