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III.

TRANSISTOR RELAY DRIVER


DESIGN COMPUTATION OF A RELAY
DRIVER
I.

II.

DESIGN PROBLEM
Design a relay driver using a 547
transistor with a VCC of 14V, a VBB of
14V and a 6V relay.
CIRCUIT

SPECIFICATIONS:
TRANSISTOR
Vcc = 14V
VBB = 14V
VBE = 0.7V
VCE(SAT) = 0.2V
(min.) = 100
RRELAY = 100
RELAY
VLED = 2.1V
ILED = 20mA

IV.

SOLUTION

VRB = VBB VBE


= 14V 0.7V
VRB =
IB = I C

IC = IRELAY = VRELAY
RRELAY
= 6V
100
IC = 60mA
IB = I C

= 60mA
100
IB= 0.3mA (soft saturation)
IB= (0.3mA) (2)
IB= 0.6mA (hard saturation)

RB = VRB
IB
=

13.3V
0.6 mA

RB= 22.27k
Available/Used: 22k
RC = VRC
IC
VRC = VCC VCE VRELAY
= 14V 0.2V 6V
VRC = 7.8V
RC = VRC
IC
= 7.8V
60mA
RC = 130
Available/Used: 120

RL= VCC - VLED


ILED
= 14V 2V
20mA
RL = 600
Available/Used: 620

IE = I C + I B
= 60mA + 0.6mA
IE = 60.6mA

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