I am using a 24 VDC Relay coil at about 70 Ohms. I am using a 2N3904 transistor to bring neutral to the other side of the coil to make it fire. I am thinking that I have enabled a breakdown of the 2N3904 although I am not sure. I am very green with transistors. I am thinking that it may be necessary to increase the resistance of the relay circuitry, ie. add a resistor in series to the coil of the relay perhaps in parallell not sure but mainly the idea is to decrease the current that moves through my transistor (Ice). If anyone out there is better at this math then me please let me know what I should do. Thanks