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Relay question

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Hi all,
I'm about to purchase relays for the footswitching of my D-clone. I have 5V taps on my PT and was wondering if the relays are the ones I should buy:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... RK:MEWA:IT

thanks,
Coen
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Re: Relay question

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tsl602000 wrote:Hi all,
I'm about to purchase relays for the footswitching of my D-clone. I have 5V taps on my PT and was wondering if the relays are the ones I should buy:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... RK:MEWA:IT

thanks,
Coen

Yes, I've used those for 5V taps.

Unfortunatley the diode's drop too much voltage and if you have diodes on the relay won't trigger (at least mine won't). I got around it by having the diodes come on when the relay is off.
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Use a voltage doubler (2 caps, 2 diodes) to get about 14 volts DC from the 5v tap.
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Re: Relay question

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Are those the same relays that were sold on the brownnote forum as switching relays for the Dlite?
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Ed de Jager wrote:Are those the same relays that were sold on the brownnote forum as switching relays for the Dlite?
They might be..we used a lot of similar Omron relays, some 5V some 12V, and there are a bunch of different variations that all look pretty much the same.

They all work...as folks have said, some have to be set up differently.
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Ok, thanks for the input!
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