How To Interface Relay With Arduino

A Relay is an electromagnetically operated switch. Relays are used to control a circuit. Many relays consist a coil, a yoke, and an armature. When a current is passed through the coil, a magnetic field is induced in the coil which moves the armature and relay start its switching function. A normal relay has NO(normally open), NC(normally connected), COM and coil pin within it. A Simple one channel relay is shown in below image

Relay

Required Components
For designing a relay driver circuit you will need following components 

• Relay
• 1N4007 Diode
• BC547 Silicon NPN transistor
• 10K Resistor 

Circuit Diagram

A simple relay driver circuit is shown in below image. Here we use an NPN BC547 transistor to drive the relay.Base current ought to be a lot of enough to turn on a transistor. A diode 1N4007 use among the circuit to protect the transistor from damage due to back emf. When relay is in off state, COM pin of 

Relay Driver Circuit 

a relay is connected to NC(normally connected) pin and when a small current start flows through relay coil then COM pin is connected to NO(normally open) pin.

NOTE: Change +5V  to +12V in the circuit 

Code for relay testing is same as for blink an LED so learn  how to blink an LED and test your relay driver circuit. Now using relay make some more cool projects using arduino like control your AC home appliances, turn ON/OFF a bulb and many more.

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