These solid state relays are just too fragile to use. This one shorted out and have no idea why. Voltage was limited to 60V and 4A, This may have entered a liner region. The little yellow thing is the transformer as I expected. The top was easy to pop off. Unlike other SSR, this one is potted and unlikely to be repaired. This is a total loss as have many other attempts at trying to make it easy for the non technical in solar. These has all been costing me way too much with no end result. Effective solar projects just can't be dumbed down to modules bought on amazon and screwed together. This Chinese stuff is just to unreliable and expensive to boot. I don't mind someone burning up a 15 cent chip. I don't want to be blamed for someone burning expensive modules. Doing things right requires discrete components. This is the end of amazon screw together projects.
Agreed! Nothing beats the efficiency and reliability of a single MOSFET for DC and dual MOSFET for AC with a tiny $1 isolated SMPS thrown in for the gate drive. I look forward to your videos on those BTW - is this SSR the type that use a HF oscillator to generate the input signal that feeds through the HF transformer providing the gating signal?
These solid state relays are just too fragile to use. This one shorted out and have no idea why. Voltage was limited to 60V and 4A, This may have entered a liner region. The little yellow thing is the transformer as I expected. The top was easy to pop off. Unlike other SSR, this one is potted and unlikely to be repaired. This is a total loss as have many other attempts at trying to make it easy for the non technical in solar.
These has all been costing me way too much with no end result. Effective solar projects just can't be dumbed down to modules bought on amazon and screwed together. This Chinese stuff is just to unreliable and expensive to boot. I don't mind someone burning up a 15 cent chip. I don't want to be blamed for someone burning expensive modules. Doing things right requires discrete components. This is the end of amazon screw together projects.
Agreed! Nothing beats the efficiency and reliability of a single MOSFET for DC and dual MOSFET for AC with a tiny $1 isolated SMPS thrown in for the gate drive. I look forward to your videos on those
BTW - is this SSR the type that use a HF oscillator to generate the input signal that feeds through the HF transformer providing the gating signal?