Relay setup (Pics inside) with arming LEDs

[DarkEcho]

http://home.att.net/~darkecho/wiring_relays.JPG

that is how i plan on running all of the safety switches in series and still having LEDs that function independantly of eachother so that i can monitor which switch hasnt been closed yet..

once i arm the whole system via the toggle switch at the bottom, the panel will glow three red LEDs, once each switch closes, the red LED will kick off and the green one will activate showing me which switches have yet to be closed..

if you think about it, in series, all of the leds might come on at once and it would be up to the first switch in the series as to whether i would be able to see if the others were on or not... it wouldnt function the way i want is what im saying, all the LEDs would be dependant on the switch before theirs so it wouldnt work, if you dont believe me, draw it up for yourself!

anyways, i posted this for anyone else who plans on using LEDs to show them the switch status, and also if anyone can point me in the direction of an electrical part that might do some of the things i want to do, instead of buying a bunch of relays haha

any better ways to accomplish this? thanks!

[12secondv6]

Nice picture :D

I know nothing of electrical though :(

[DarkEcho]

lol thanks for the input james. lol

[AZ3.8Camaro]

Thats an INSANE amount of relays! I will try and come up with a better way!

[oil pan 4]

Use SCR's

[12secondv6]

Originally posted by oil pan 4:
Use SCR's

What are those?

[oil pan 4]

Silicon Controled Rectifiers
They are a semicounductors and have no moving parts.
With AC power they make half wave DC.
In a DC circuit they are an eletronic hold in circuit switch.
There are 3 tremanals. lets say a,b is like the switch termanls on a relay and 1 is used to turn it on.
A is where the power goes into the SCR, B is where it goes out.
You can have power applied all the time to A and no power will go through it to b.
When You close another switch (momentary switch just for a second and leting go) sending power to a that will turn on the SCR.
That will keep power going through the SCR untill power is cut (some where on 1 or 2) to it then it resets.
It is allmost like a clothes dryier when you press the button and it says on untill you open the door or the timer shuts it off reseting the switch.
I don't rember if dryiers use SCR's or relays for that, but that is the function.

[oil pan 4]

There not that much like a relay they can only have a very small amprege through them like for an LED or maybe the coils for a small relay at the most.
And you can't hook up an LED to 12v power with out a resistor, it will burn it up in a few seconds.

[12secondv6]

Oh... damn.... electrical... its the devil!

[AZ3.8Camaro]

Originally posted by oil pan 4:
There not that much like a relay they can only have a very small amprege through them like for an LED or maybe the coils for a small relay at the most.
And you can't hook up an LED to 12v power with out a resistor, it will burn it up in a few seconds.

They make 12V LEDS, I used them on my fan switch.

[oil pan 4]

I never got to use them, I all ways had to put in a resistor.

[slow]

Your using almost twice the needed number of relays for the setup you want to have.

If you want each safety switch, assuming you have a WOT FPSS and Window switch as the three listed on the site.

Connect the led's to the output of each one of the safety switches. Then connect the output of each one of them to a relay, to get the safety your looking for need.

So when your done you'll have a relay for +12 arm, then wot, then fpss, then window. Once the 4 relays are all energized, use the output of that to the relays. Only downside is you will need to have high current going to the #30 of the first relay, and continue that throught the 4 relays.

Ryan