Over the last year, I've gotten really really bad about leaving my soldering iron on. Sometimes for days. I've been going through tips like it's going out of style and I need to put an end to it. So I had this idea for a simple little timer circuit.
I've got a little arduino pro mini I'm programming. There will be a button to start a roughly 30 minute count-down timer. This will turn on a relay that will activate my soldering iron. Additionally there's a 2 digit 7-segment display to display the countdown as it proceeds. Pressing the button resets the timer...
So that's the basic idea. My question is about the relay. I have zero experience with relays and I just want to verify the specs on this. I pulled this little blue plastic radio shack PC mount relay from a box of stuff. Says it's rated for 10A@120VAC. So just to verify: Way more than enough to handle my 60W iron. Correct?
I kind of have a hard time imagining that little relay pushing 1200W.
I've got a little arduino pro mini I'm programming. There will be a button to start a roughly 30 minute count-down timer. This will turn on a relay that will activate my soldering iron. Additionally there's a 2 digit 7-segment display to display the countdown as it proceeds. Pressing the button resets the timer...
So that's the basic idea. My question is about the relay. I have zero experience with relays and I just want to verify the specs on this. I pulled this little blue plastic radio shack PC mount relay from a box of stuff. Says it's rated for 10A@120VAC. So just to verify: Way more than enough to handle my 60W iron. Correct?
I kind of have a hard time imagining that little relay pushing 1200W.