RESCUE TRIAC

RESCUE TRIACUtterly exhausted by his refrigerator, which has neither a hot day, then another “surprise” in the starting relay, was forced to ask for help in workshop. There categorically stated: burnt start winding, you need to change or rewind the motor. And when I calculated what it cost me… well, I ventured on a self-experiment with electrical hadagreed, relying mainly on intuition, a high school physics course an elementary luck. In the starting winding circuit is turned on the triac so the relay contacts earned in low-voltage circuit. And here is the result: with a refrigerator no problem.

 
E. DEMCHENKO, senior Staroderevyankovskaya, Krasnodarskiy Kray

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