I am using a 08M picaxe with a A210DN solid-state relay to control the shutter on A Pentax DSLR and a couple of Canon DSLRs. These cameras have co-ax sockets for remote controls so the relay merely closes a switch so that the camera's battery can operate the shutter. Which is another way of saying that the voltage and current through the relay is trivial.
I want to do something a bit more ambitious and operate a tiny solenoid. The available solenoids are 12Volts and are rated at 10Watts (max). I know these relays operate successfully at 6Volts and this is how I would run them. They would be activated for about one second at a time. Would the A210DN relay (also called HFS2) handle this kind of task? If not, would it vanish in a puff of smoke, or would it just not conduct enough current to activate the solenoid?
Thank you.
I want to do something a bit more ambitious and operate a tiny solenoid. The available solenoids are 12Volts and are rated at 10Watts (max). I know these relays operate successfully at 6Volts and this is how I would run them. They would be activated for about one second at a time. Would the A210DN relay (also called HFS2) handle this kind of task? If not, would it vanish in a puff of smoke, or would it just not conduct enough current to activate the solenoid?
Thank you.