<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Thanks for the help and advice!</span><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">Pete, I figured someone might give me that response and I think that's all I needed to hear. Will most likely stay away from this kind of thing for a while.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">Might check out Paul's idea, but won't be venturing into making my own. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">Nick</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 25, 2017 3:56 PM, "Pete Soper via TriEmbed" <<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org">triembed@triembed.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi Nick,<br>
If this area doesn't seem very clear I would urge you to go
Paul's route with an off the shelf solution. This is a variation on
the theme of "if you have to ask, you can't afford it". <br>
And for anything near moisture and/or outdoors the AC power must
be fed by a GFCI outlet or GFCI-protected circuit feeding the outlet
("must" being 50% code requirement and 50% 'I want to maximize my
chance of staying alive'). (You might say "but a coffee maker
doesn't have a three prong plug". See above.) I'm bringing up the
GFCI issue in case you might be tempted to run an extension cord out
a window or door. Notice that the PowerSwitch Tail does not do GFCI,
so for an outdoor application you'd feed it with a GFCI-protected
outlet.<br>
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-Pete<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">You
can roll your own, or go the simple route…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.powerswitchtail.com/" target="_blank">http://www.powerswitchtail.<wbr>com/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">These
have 5v input signal and control 110V AC in a safe package.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">--->
Paul<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
TriEmbed [<a class="m_-4322040216291616901moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:triembed-bounces@triembed.org" target="_blank">mailto:triembed-bounces@<wbr>triembed.org</a>] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Nick Meyer via TriEmbed<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 25, 2017 2:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> TriEmbed<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [TriEmbed] Hacking home appliances<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hey all,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm itching to try hacking some home
appliances (e.g., coffee maker or lamps) using some
relays.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Assuming you use a relay with the
proper ratings, how risky is this? I'm concerned about
starting a fire or something. Also, would this violate
some building code?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<u></u><u></u></p>
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