I'm really not sure about the grease. In it's native applications, there is quite a bit of pressure to displace it. A 3 phase contactor has 6 contacts to share the applied force.
A bit back, someone with droopy plants said higher EC fixed it. It was a fleeting post, but stuck with me. Recently mine were dropping in the last hour. I then noticed they had stopped, just after I started using a bit more P and my RH had come up. I hadn't lowered the illumination level either. In fact, some of my tops were just ~75mm from a QB, looking great, at a whopping 2400ppfd. Lower canopy areas are around 600ppfd. I have been lazy with my training... but the point is my RH was up nearly 5% and they were getting more P and light, and stopped drooping. So the fix was in the P or the RH. Which was about 60%. Similar stage to yours. Really filling out, and making more humidity.
I can't believe you have had the cat since 1980. She hasn't aged a day.
.... In fact, some of my tops were just ~75mm from a QB, looking great, at a whopping 2400ppfd.
All this talk when you could get 3 x the smallest AC SSR's out there, switch off the PSU's directly and be done with it. No sparks, no danger, and the best design as safety and efficiency goes from all the options we discussed.
Just because you dont understand that those psu's have no problem with being switched. They are switching power supplies, ffs. It doesnt matter if you switch them externally or they switch off internally, it's same stress on the components. Heat killes them faster, not power cycling. Yet you are here, trying to keep them "heated" for longer life, rather than just switching them off when you don't need them. I bet 10 mins researching how modern switching supplies work, especially when low voltage and amps are drawn from them, would stop this circus.
If you didn't get a made for DC contactor, and it can do A/C, that would be safer and better design as well to just use the contactor on the psu input and not output. Actually, I am not even sure your contactor is rated for DC.
Does it say DC ratings on it anywhere?
10w can about power a soldering iron, but the contact can't be the only resistance in the circuit, so won't ever see that. It should be pretty damn heat proof tbh. I have seen them crumble but the load of other-worldly.
They split across the middle, just above the coil. Couple of push in tabs each side. It's not really serviceable, but they can usually be opened and the coils swapped. If your determined.
You could just move the contactor to the AC side. Have all 3 phases failed? you only need one.
The contactor is a cjx2 made by shanghai xinai electronic co. ltd
It is an AC contactor, and as such only carries AC ratings on the label. More will be online. It's a very common contactor. I just got there name off one on my desk. Apparently it's been sat here since 2014 lol I got the jzc4 22 which is a 4 pole, but two are NO and two are NC. I wanted all 4 poles to be NO. These are still handy though, if you want to switch between lights and heaters.
No, AC ssrs won't switch dc, and dc ones can't switch AC. As it is with contactors, ssrs shoukd be chosen not only by rating and input power type, but by the output power type as well.
You would need AC-AC ssr with a rating of 5A or more to control the input part of the psus.
Just like you should have bought an AC-DC contactor with a power rating of 25A of more to switch the power on the output (DC) side.
Since you bought a contactor that is probably not even rated for the job you are using it, moving it to the input side would use it in the intended way and within the stated ratings.
SSR's would help you save like 5W an hour every hour the contactor is used as well, but you seem not so concerned about saving power, so maybe leave that for next time, when the new contactor fails.
No, AC ssrs won't switch dc, and dc ones can't switch AC. As it is with contactors, ssrs shoukd be chosen not only by rating and input power type, but by the output power type as well.
You would need AC-AC ssr with a rating of 5A or more to control the input part of the psus.
Just like you should have bought an AC-DC contactor with a power rating of 25A of more to switch the power on the output (DC) side.
Since you bought a contactor that is probably not even rated for the job you are using it, moving it to the input side would use it in the intended way and within the stated ratings.
SSR's would help you save like 5W an hour every hour the contactor is used as well, but you seem not so concerned about saving power, so maybe leave that for next time, when the new contactor fails.
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SSR's would help you save like 5W an hour every hour the contactor is used as well, but you seem not so concerned about saving power, so maybe leave that for next time, when the new contactor fails.
I will give that post a like. It certainly sent me' back to school.
Triacs. Wired as I thought, but they won't switch off without a zero cross.
I have done nothing with solid state relays. They are newer than me.
Awww...
You didn't tell me about the 4 pole option.
That's what I want. Lol
So you really don't want to hear that 4 more can be clipped on top.