Timed relay - problem

[Jurij I. Gorkij]

So I built this circuit:

Fueled generator -> Timed relay (set to turn on between 4:00 and 22:00) -> Battery Bank -> Electric fence

My aim was to simulate powering circuit with Solar Banks (haven't found one yet), tried to do so with timed relay.

However somehow while timed relay is off, batteries don't provide power for these fences. Batteries in bank are fully recharged, wire tool shows fences as powered but power is not drained from batteries and fences do not work.

Have anybody encountered same problem?

[Thera]

no but i'll have a go at a similar setup later and report back, I hadn't thought of trying that, I just use the Batteries as an emergency supply.

[Lemming]

Originally posted by Jurij I. Gorkij:

So I built this circuit:

Fueled generator -> Timed relay (set to turn on between 4:00 and 22:00) -> Battery Bank -> Electric fence

My aim was to simulate powering circuit with Solar Banks (haven't found one yet), tried to do so with timed relay.

However somehow while timed relay is off, batteries don't provide power for these fences. Batteries in bank are fully recharged, wire tool shows fences as powered but power is not drained from batteries and fences do not work.

Have anybody encountered same problem?

So I just tested this set-up, and it is behaving as you report. It looks like it's the timed relay that's doing it. It works correctly without it, but with it they show powered but don't draw power/work.

[Jurij I. Gorkij]

Originally posted by Lemming:

So I just tested this set-up, and it is behaving as you report. It looks like it's the timed relay that's doing it. It works correctly without it, but with it they show powered but don't draw power/work.

To me it looks like those timers disable power flow in whole circuit, not just trough them.

I am pretty sure circuit works well when timers are on.

Thx for your test.

[Lemming]

Ok, funny thing...I just went to test it again after playing with some timed relay circuits using lights and got something different. Now, it's reading the circuit as energized (proper power being drawn, the fence is in fact working, but the battery isn't being drawn down as it should.

When the timed relay switches to off, it takes the load off the generator, it puts it on the battery bank, but it only drains one off the battery and stops. I was testing lights and getting the same result, and when I tested the fence again it was working.

...my first test I probably was testing the fence in the overload segment I added to test if that was part of it... That or it might be a state change from turning the generator/battery bank off/on in a certain order.

Anyway...yeah, that's a solid bug if it's making the battery bank basically supply free power.

[TheSweeTiger Chun]

someone have reported the bug , because it's still on alpha 19
I used with one solar and 3 battery bank in rotation with time relay and this still bug

[Bobcatmike666]

put the timer relays in line after your battery banks.