Karthik rajagopal
- May 9, 2016
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Hello all,
I am planning to design a timer based cut off circuit for my ~230V, 10A water heater. In order to avoid arching at the relay contacts, I thought of using a RC snubber circuit.
I haven't worked with snubber circuits before. I went through lot of documents on the internet but didn't get a clear idea.
I am not sure whether to have the snubber circuit across the switch or load or to entirely go with TRIAC based design for zero cross switching.
Please help me out with my confusion and also with the component value calculation .
Thanks in advance.
I am planning to design a timer based cut off circuit for my ~230V, 10A water heater. In order to avoid arching at the relay contacts, I thought of using a RC snubber circuit.
I haven't worked with snubber circuits before. I went through lot of documents on the internet but didn't get a clear idea.
I am not sure whether to have the snubber circuit across the switch or load or to entirely go with TRIAC based design for zero cross switching.
Please help me out with my confusion and also with the component value calculation .
Thanks in advance.