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solenoid protection purchase

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I want to purchase solenoids from you, (5 V, $4.95) will you determine which resistors, diodes, and transistors will be needed to protect the circuits for me? (using Arduino)

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Re: solenoid protection purchase

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We'd need more information to say anything specific.

What solenoid do you want to use, what do you want to do with it, and what will you use as a power supply?

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Re: solenoid protection purchase

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Mike, thank you for helping me. It is Adafruit product # 2776.

Rated Voltage: 5V
Current (at DC 5V): 1.1A
DC Resistance: 4.5 ± 5% Ω

I will be running ten solenoids at different times, never two at the same time, none exceeding 2 seconds energized. The source is an ac/dc transformer.

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Re: solenoid protection purchase

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For that one, you'll probably find it easiest to use TB6612 breakouts to control the solenoid power:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/2448

Each breakout can control two solenoids, and will take control signals from a microcontroller's GPIO pins.

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