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The Time-Delay Relay: Switching a Set Time Later
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The Time-Delay Relay: Switching a Set Time Later

Many control jobs need a pause: start the motor, wait until it is up to speed, then load it; stop the burner, then run the fan a little longer to clear the heat; light the stairway, and switch it off a few minutes later. The time-delay relay does it. An on-delay closes its contact a set time after it is energised; an off-delay keeps its contact closed a set time after it is de-energised. The earliest timed their delay with a dashpot — a piston pushing air or oil through a small adjustable hole — or with a bimetal warmed by a heater. Electronic relays charge a capacitor through a resistor and switch when it reaches a threshold. This rung works out an RC delay and why capacitor tolerance and leakage limit it, draws on- and off-delay timing, and builds an on-delay relay with a 555 timer.
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The RC delay and its limits

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Build a 555 on-delay relay

On a breadboard wire a 555 as a monostable from a 9–12 V supply: pins 4 and 8 to the supply, pin 1 to 0 V, a resistor R from the supply to pins 6 and 7 joined, a capacitor C from pins 6 and 7 to 0 V, 10 nF from pin 5 to 0 V, and pin 2 (trigger) held high through 10 kΩ with a push button to 0 V. Pin 3 goes high for 1.1 RC after the button is pressed. Drive an NPN transistor from pin 3 through 1 kΩ, with the relay coil between the supply and the collector and a diode across the coil, reversed, to catch the coil's kick. Wire an LED through the relay's contact. Time the relay with a stopwatch for three values of R. Plot delay against R: a straight line whose slope is 1.1 C. Swap in a second capacitor of the same marked value and watch the delay change — its tolerance.

此步骤所需材料:

NE555 定时器集成电路NE555 定时器集成电路1 个
NPN 晶体管NPN 晶体管1 个
SPDT 继电器SPDT 继电器1 个
二极管二极管1 个
电容套件电容套件1 个
电阻套件电阻套件1 个
按钮按钮1 个
5 毫米 LED5 毫米 LED1 个
面包板面包板1 个
跳线跳线1 个
时间继电器时间继电器1 个

所需工具:

直流电源直流电源
万用表万用表
秒表秒表
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The relay it times

A time-delay relay is a relay with a clock in front of it. The embedded blueprint shows the electromagnetic relay it drives.
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A timer that times wrong

Time-delay relay faults.

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Context and honest limits

Pneumatic dashpot timers, thermal timers and motor-driven timers served machine and process control for decades; the 555 timer IC, introduced in 1972, made cheap electronic delays universal, and programmable controllers now provide timers in software. **Honest limits.** An RC delay drifts with temperature and with the capacitor's age. For accurate long delays use a crystal-timed or counting timer. A relay switching mains loads must be wired and enclosed by someone qualified; the bench build stays at low voltage.

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