dan.taylor.1
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Hi folks,
In our downstairs loo, which we've recently done out so it's not straight out of the 1950s, I've wired a infrared panel heater, one of them slimline wall mount jobbies, to come on with the lights via a solid state relay, as I wasn't happy having it on the light circuit, so it's spurred off the socket ring, to a switched fused spur, which is screwed to the front of an adaptable box with the relay inside.
The trigger is basically a spur off the feed to the lamp (LED dome bulkhead type fitting, brand new), the power feed as I say is from the socket ring via the fused sour, and there's a flex run in conduit to the heater.
For some reason, it'll work fine one pull of the light switch, and won't for the next few tries. Basically it's intermittent (now I haven't had my Multimeter on the relay output, just going off the led indicator on the heater panel). I haven't used a solid state relay before, I know it's worked up right, so I'm wondering if its because it's a 10A relay, with a 350w load triggered by a very low current led lamp. Does it need to see a higher load, or higher resistance on the trigger?
Any help much appreciated,
Cheers, Dan
In our downstairs loo, which we've recently done out so it's not straight out of the 1950s, I've wired a infrared panel heater, one of them slimline wall mount jobbies, to come on with the lights via a solid state relay, as I wasn't happy having it on the light circuit, so it's spurred off the socket ring, to a switched fused spur, which is screwed to the front of an adaptable box with the relay inside.
The trigger is basically a spur off the feed to the lamp (LED dome bulkhead type fitting, brand new), the power feed as I say is from the socket ring via the fused sour, and there's a flex run in conduit to the heater.
For some reason, it'll work fine one pull of the light switch, and won't for the next few tries. Basically it's intermittent (now I haven't had my Multimeter on the relay output, just going off the led indicator on the heater panel). I haven't used a solid state relay before, I know it's worked up right, so I'm wondering if its because it's a 10A relay, with a 350w load triggered by a very low current led lamp. Does it need to see a higher load, or higher resistance on the trigger?
Any help much appreciated,
Cheers, Dan