Cooker hood switch ???
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Personally, rather than a solder sucker I would reccommend getting some good de-soldering braid. It will wick up molten solder much more cleanly than a sucker will (as long as you get decent stuff).
The uni labs stocked this stuff - the green "No Clean" ones are excellent. 2.5mm should do for most things unless you're planning on doing some SMD work!
The uni labs stocked this stuff - the green "No Clean" ones are excellent. 2.5mm should do for most things unless you're planning on doing some SMD work!
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Robin, quick question on the two triacs you posted too, there rated voltage was 600v but the max gate voltage was 2.5v . In an application like this is the cooker hood likely to have a transformer for the elv side but it then switches 240v to the lamps? Basically it's just an electronic relay I guess? Just curious! Thanks.
Probably not a transformer, most likely the elv supply will be derived from a capacitor dropper and therefore will not be isolated from the mains...
Something like this I would expect - http://www.bitsbox.co.uk/infocontent/capdropper.html
The control voltage in most dimmer switches and mant digital times is also done in this way.
The triac is indeed like a relay or a switch. Most dimmers for tungsten lamps are in fact just a triac switching fast.
Something like this I would expect - http://www.bitsbox.co.uk/infocontent/capdropper.html
The control voltage in most dimmer switches and mant digital times is also done in this way.
The triac is indeed like a relay or a switch. Most dimmers for tungsten lamps are in fact just a triac switching fast.
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