Hi, I'm new here.
Ran into this forum by searches and found good info, but now quite what I need, so thought I could ask. So if anybody has time to share some info I'd be appreciated.
So thing is, I got a relay. Basically its got coil and moving part, its quite high powered but I dont know all the specs yet, and it'd be good if I'd had idea solution before I get personally to it. Its used for mechanical movement, its not closing any electric circuit so thats important too. Its just moving a mechanical regulation part.
Problem is, on start of operation, it uses a lot of force and hits other mechanical contact very strongly, too much power. It probably needs all power it has, but problem is its braking mechanism its attached to, hitting it too hard. Solution is supposed to be slowing down initial contact.
So what I need is a method to slow down activation of that relay, so it doesnt go full power in like 1ms, but slowly getting power and making a softer contact with other mechanical part.
It needs to be robust and simple, energy consumption is not important. Only thing I thought of so far was adding a capacitor parallel to the coil so that once the circuit is energised capacitor needs to be filled with energy and therefore it slows down activation of relay. Would this work? And if so, how could I calculate or aproximate Farads of capacitor, I will know the voltage, likely its 24 or 72V, and I will probably now know relay details as L or forces.
Anybody got any ideas?
Ran into this forum by searches and found good info, but now quite what I need, so thought I could ask. So if anybody has time to share some info I'd be appreciated.
So thing is, I got a relay. Basically its got coil and moving part, its quite high powered but I dont know all the specs yet, and it'd be good if I'd had idea solution before I get personally to it. Its used for mechanical movement, its not closing any electric circuit so thats important too. Its just moving a mechanical regulation part.
Problem is, on start of operation, it uses a lot of force and hits other mechanical contact very strongly, too much power. It probably needs all power it has, but problem is its braking mechanism its attached to, hitting it too hard. Solution is supposed to be slowing down initial contact.
So what I need is a method to slow down activation of that relay, so it doesnt go full power in like 1ms, but slowly getting power and making a softer contact with other mechanical part.
It needs to be robust and simple, energy consumption is not important. Only thing I thought of so far was adding a capacitor parallel to the coil so that once the circuit is energised capacitor needs to be filled with energy and therefore it slows down activation of relay. Would this work? And if so, how could I calculate or aproximate Farads of capacitor, I will know the voltage, likely its 24 or 72V, and I will probably now know relay details as L or forces.
Anybody got any ideas?