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Experiment #9 (update)
Johnathon1978:
Indeed cool, either of these would work great in my driving cab for a vibration motor.... very cool..
DaOld Man:
Just a little update.
With the input (5vdc) turned off:
Seems like with no load on the outlet the voltage on the outlet is 120 VAC.
With the fan plugged in, voltage drops to 0.6 VAC.
With my intended LCD monitor plugged in, the voltage is 10-11 VAC.
I dont think the 10-11 VAC will hurt the LCD monitor, but maybe some of you monitor gurus can tell me for sure. The power light on the monitor goes completely off.
With nothing plugged into the outlet, the indicator light on the outlet glows. (With the 5vdc control off)
This is a neon light and it takes nearly no current at all to turn it on, but as soon as I plug anything into the outlet, the light goes off.
RoyalScam:
OK, it's 11:30 pm here, and I just saw this, so if I get something wrong it's probably because I'm looking at it with tired eyes. From the schematic you've posted (sorry it's a little convoluted) it seems you don't have a connection to neutral for your SSR. That is you only have a neutral when something is plugged into the outlet. It seems to me you've inadvertently wired the outlet in series with the SSR when it really needs to be in parallel.
Someone with fresh eyes look this over and see if that's so. Best of luck with your experiment!
Regards,
Scam
::edit:: forget the series/ parallel crap above. Wire the SSR pin one to neutral of AC line(white wire from the plug). Wire pin 2 of SSR to neutral side of outlet. Wire hot side of outlet to the pole (in on your diagram) of a spst switch. Wire throw (out on your diagram) of switch to HOT of ac line(black wire from plug). Sketch this on some paper, but I'm pretty sure I've got it right.
DaOld Man:
Thanks for your input, but wiring the SSR in series with the neutral would basically take the switch (my override function) completely out of the picture.
The SSR is wired in parallel with the switch, not the outlet.
Here is a hopefully less convoluted diagram:
drventure:
Nice. SSR's are really handy, and generally speaking, they're faster enough to be driven by the PCM from an ledwiz.
That means that, say you want to light some ELWire that uses AC voltage, you can connect the SSR to your LEDWIZ as just another LED, and connect the ELWIRE transformer through the SSR to your elwire segments, and presto, you have elwire that can blink, pulse, ramp up, ramp down, etc just like a regular old LED.
Just curious, is the reason you're turning off the monitor while it rotates because of magnetization issues (having to degauss more often) or something else?