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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.

Àwọn ohun èlò fún ìgbésẹ̀ yìí:

IC ohun ìdíwọ̀n àkókò NE555IC ohun ìdíwọ̀n àkókò NE5551 ẹyọ
Transistor NPNTransistor NPN1 ẹyọ
Relay SPDTRelay SPDT1 ẹyọ
DiodeDiode1 ẹyọ
Àkójọpọ̀ CapacitorÀkójọpọ̀ Capacitor1 ẹyọ
Àkójọ RẹsístàÀkójọ Rẹsístà1 ẹyọ
Bọ́tìnì ìtẹ̀Bọ́tìnì ìtẹ̀1 ẹyọ
LED 5 mmLED 5 mm1 ẹyọ
Pátákó ÀdánwòPátákó Àdánwò1 ẹyọ
Okùn Ìsopọ̀Okùn Ìsopọ̀1 ẹyọ
Relay ìdádúró àkókòRelay ìdádúró àkókò1 ẹyọ

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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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