In need for some advice Arduino board
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 11:42 pm
Hi,
While exploring the capabilities of the Arduino board i bought recently i could really need some advice on whether what i am doing is ok or not.
Since i'm a complete nitwit in this area, i would really appreciate some of the guru's to have a look at it...
The Arduino board has 14 x Digital I/O, so i thought i'd buy me a few bistable (latching is the right word i think) relays and attach those to my Arduino. For now i have 1 of those relays connected, just to try it out.
These are the relays i use.
In the end i want to make some sort of relay board with a couple (5 or more) of relays to switch a number of devices i have in my meter box; mostly interfaces like GSM modem, PBX, etc etc; the usual stuff you'll find in 'our' homes. I thought building this with 2 XBee modules, an Arduino and a couple of relays is a cool [8D] way to create my own wireless relay board.
So now i've got 1 relay connected to 2 Digital I/O ports. 1 DIO for switching on, 1 DIO for switching off, since the relay has a coil for each state. I wrote a little Arduino sketch that will give a 10 ms pulse to one of the DIO ports on a command received by XBee which results in switching the relay into the desired state. It is working (as in: i hear the relay making clicking sounds), but:
Is this the best way to connect this kind of relays to my Arduino?
Is there a way to only use 1 DIO for switching this kind of relay somehow?
<hr noshade size="1"><font size="1">Robert
http://www.hekkers.net <i>Digit's Online Home.</i></font id="size1">
While exploring the capabilities of the Arduino board i bought recently i could really need some advice on whether what i am doing is ok or not.
Since i'm a complete nitwit in this area, i would really appreciate some of the guru's to have a look at it...
The Arduino board has 14 x Digital I/O, so i thought i'd buy me a few bistable (latching is the right word i think) relays and attach those to my Arduino. For now i have 1 of those relays connected, just to try it out.
These are the relays i use.
In the end i want to make some sort of relay board with a couple (5 or more) of relays to switch a number of devices i have in my meter box; mostly interfaces like GSM modem, PBX, etc etc; the usual stuff you'll find in 'our' homes. I thought building this with 2 XBee modules, an Arduino and a couple of relays is a cool [8D] way to create my own wireless relay board.
So now i've got 1 relay connected to 2 Digital I/O ports. 1 DIO for switching on, 1 DIO for switching off, since the relay has a coil for each state. I wrote a little Arduino sketch that will give a 10 ms pulse to one of the DIO ports on a command received by XBee which results in switching the relay into the desired state. It is working (as in: i hear the relay making clicking sounds), but:
Is this the best way to connect this kind of relays to my Arduino?
Is there a way to only use 1 DIO for switching this kind of relay somehow?
<hr noshade size="1"><font size="1">Robert
http://www.hekkers.net <i>Digit's Online Home.</i></font id="size1">
