[1000mp] MPV Driving SB220

[Jan Erik Holm]

What is a snubbing diode? I have never heard that
expression before.

/Jim SM2EKM
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Pete Smith wrote:
> You can also play safe by putting a 220-ohm resistor in series with the switching lead to limit the current through the relay contacts; that device was published in QST many years ago, when relays in TS-930s like mine were being fried by the relay current - the stock SB-220 relay has no snubbing diode, which may be part or all of the problem.
> 
> 73, Pete
> 
> At 11:58 PM 10/23/2006, you wrote:
>> Yes it will be OK, it´s all in the manual.
>>
>> This is the specs, it will key:
>>
>> 500mA @ 125V or
>> 300mA @ 220V or
>> 2A    @  30V
>>
>> 73 SM2EKM
>> ---------------------------------------------------
>> Yuri VE3DZ wrote:
>>> On a slightly different topic - does anybody have any experience of FT1000MP
>>> driving an "unmodified" SB220? I mean is it Okay to control the SB220 from
>>> the "TX GND" of the MP?
>>> Thanks.
>>> 73 Yuri  VE3DZ
>>
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