Thought I might start a general thread, what you dod today that you thought might be interesting to all.
To start it, today I was rewinding some relay coils, to change them from a standard 24VAC coil to a slightly non standard 36VAC coil, as the original coils and contactors are a 3 month delay on the slow boat from China, and are the same poor quality. Steel contacts and steel terminals, not exactly the beast.
So, bought some GE contactors, made in Poland, and unwound the one to get the turns count ( 522) and rewound it with 850 turns of a slightly thinner wire ( so as to still fit the former) that I ordered from RS Components as part of a larger order. Naturally, being RS, 3 out of the 4 are ex UK stock, and will be here next week. The wire was the only item in stock locally, so was next day, even before the payment cleared. So, spent a pleasant 2 hours unwinding and rewinding 2 coils, multitasking doing so as receptionist. 5 calls in that time, lucky I had a pen and paper to use as a counter. Cleaned the wire ends with some sandpaper and soldered them to the terminals, and put them in and they work, 7VA power consumption.
Now, what to do with 1km of 0.224mm wire, still have 30km of 0.5mm wire that has been around a long time, but too big to use here.
