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| TF110R Flasher booster/bulb-failure bypass relay with "tell-tale" monitor |
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| This device incorporates two relays mounted with other circuits as described below. |
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| The diagram below illustrates its appearance and application |
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It has two screw terminals RH and LH on the output side of the relay that should be connected to the green and the yellow wires of the 7 core cable as shown above. |
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| Connections to the vehicle flasher circuits are made with short wires from the screw terminals RH and LH on the input side of the relay to the appropriate vehicle circuits as shown above. |
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| A panel lamp or buzzer should be connected with its positive side to the terminal marked "TT" (TellTale) and its negative side to earth. |
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| A power cable, fused 5 amps close to the battery, should be brought from the battery and connected to the terminal marked +12V. |
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| The white wire on the relay should be taken to earth. |
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| Tell tale |
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It is a legal requirement when you fit a towbar to provide some form of warning, either visible or audible, to tell you whether your trailer/caravan direction indicators (flashers) are working. For this purpose, a monitoring circuit is built into the TF110R. This detects current being drawn into the unit from the vehicle battery when the trailer flashers are working. When such current is detected, the monitoring circuit generates a signal in the tell tale output, capable of operating a buzzer or a panel lamp. |
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| Damping |
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Although relays emit an electro-magnetic pulse when they switch, they are, for the purposes of EMC regulations, regarded as inert. But when they switch many times a minute, as these do, following the operation of a vehicle's indicators, the frequency of the pulse does contravene some regulations.
Because of this, despite the fact that the regulations hardly apply to our industry, the device has damping circuits or "snubbers" which inhibit such emissions. These damping circuits ensure that there is no question of these relays conflicting with the increasingly complex electronics in modern vehicles. |