[Soekris] How to drive external relays?

[Joshua ChaitinPollak]

On Sep 7, 2006, at 7:45 PM, Peter Bako wrote:

> Has anyone ever used a soekris box to drive a set of small relays?   
> I have a project in mind where I would have to control a small  
> series of relays and be able to turn them on at pre-scheduled times  
> and keep them on for anywhere from 1 to 45 minutes.  The relays  
> would be used to send a larger voltage down the line to control end  
> devices.
>
> Anyone do anything similar and have any suggestions, ideas, etc?

We are doing this using a serial controlled relay box. The one we are  
using is made by SeaI/O and requires you to write a Modbus protocol  
implementation (I have one I could share but it isn't all that  
great). There are other serial relay boxes we have in house (not  
controlled via Soekris boxes) that use a simpler interface. There are  
even small "WebRelay" devices that are single relays with an ethernet  
port, you could control them from a centralized source on a network  
if that works for you.

There are tons of these sorts of boxes out there, just about anything  
works with the Soekris.

-- 
Joshua ChaitinPollak
Software Engineer
Kiva Systems


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