afternoon all,
i have started a new project in my workplace with the aim of reducing our carbon footprint, the plan is to have a 24V lightgate control a timed relay, which when trigger will start a 5 minute cycle of power to our 415V motors with the theory of instead of running them needlessly for an hour with one box, the box can pass and 5 mins later the relay switches off the motor, only problem is if there is more than one box (we process on average 9000 per day) the lightgate is constantly cycling through high and low states which in turn has the relays coil cycling at the same rate which has the motors on and off jumping every time a box passes, anyone know if there is a way to delay the signal from the lightgate to the relay to ensure there is a large enough gap in the on off sequence?
cheers
>
i have started a new project in my workplace with the aim of reducing our carbon footprint, the plan is to have a 24V lightgate control a timed relay, which when trigger will start a 5 minute cycle of power to our 415V motors with the theory of instead of running them needlessly for an hour with one box, the box can pass and 5 mins later the relay switches off the motor, only problem is if there is more than one box (we process on average 9000 per day) the lightgate is constantly cycling through high and low states which in turn has the relays coil cycling at the same rate which has the motors on and off jumping every time a box passes, anyone know if there is a way to delay the signal from the lightgate to the relay to ensure there is a large enough gap in the on off sequence?
cheers
>