[TriEmbed] Hardware "Debugging"

[John Vaughters]

Jon,
Great Article, you re-created the event that coined the term "bug" as in software bug. To answer your question on mechanical vs. solid state? Heavy inductive loads and solid state relays are not friends. Of course it is possible and there are many solid state motor control relay solutions out there, but they are expensive and rather complicated. Often programmable to certain motor characteristics. In short, complex and expensive so onward with the mechanical relay. Oh yeah and can be dangerous. I had a 220VAC solid state relay blow up in my face due to a dead short. Thank God for Safety Glasses and my ears rang for a few days. It was the only time that I got to see the inside of a solid state relay `,~)
John Vaughters 


     On Friday, June 5, 2015 12:34 AM, Jon Wolfe via TriEmbed <triembed at triembed.org> wrote:
   

  I had an interesting discovery fixing my air conditioning this week, and wrote a story about it: http://www.bytecruft.com/2015/06/debugging-my-hvac-system.html   -- 
Jon Wolfe
Anibit Technology LLC.

https://anibit.com

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