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Originally Posted by wazzz
Doesn't appear to be SSR. No mention of solid state relay on their product page.
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My bad - you're right of course, I missed that. Although it'd probably take all of 10-15 minutes to desolder that guy with a hot air reflow station and fit an PCB-mount SSR - if you really, really wanted that.
I have a box of Pansonic ISO relays that I paid like $4 each for; any industrial relay from a reputable manufacturer really couldn't fail to be a massive improvement over this horror-show:
(From
The infamous Chinese red relay [pics inside])
Which is what we're trying to avoid getting
at all, right? - much less paying $40 a pop for, only to discover something like 40% of them don't work out of the box...
Turns out the 914rubber guys developed their own relays too. In 2019. They built a test bed, picked one at random, put a "real" load on it (cycling a 914 headlight motor every 7 seconds) and tested for 600,000 cycles before failure. From
BIG announcement form 914Rubber NEW REALYS Improved design, w/ 1 yr warranty
I bet if you popped the cap on theirs, you'd just see actual good quality mass-produced industrial components under there...
Interestingly, thread on the teener board says they initially tried SSRs - but had early failures in testing/got better reliability with actual relays...