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[Amps] Crydom relays

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Subject: [Amps] Crydom relays
From: "John Lyles" <jtml@losalamos.com>
Reply-to: jtml@vla.com
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:19:36 -0700
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When I first used these in a medium powered broadcast TX design, I used them 
for everything except the plate contactor and step start relays. Had a lot of 
problems with the ones on the filament and blower AC lines, as they would 
occasionally turn-on or -off on line transients when the main plate contactor 
switched. We solved this transient susceptability problem by installing RC 
snubbers and MOV's across the line terminals, not the control terminals. I saw 
this series RC snubber approach in one of the old SSR app. manuals, might have 
been International Rectifiers notes. It was there to prevent dV/dt on the line 
from causing falsing. We used the snubbers on them for years, in production 
units. I would imagine that these days, the SSRs are improved in their immunity 
to line noise. 
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