You are an electrician working in a plant that uses programmable controliers to parform much of the logic for the motor controls. The plant produces highly flammable chemicals, so the programmable controllers use a 24-volt DC output that is intrinsically safe in a hazardous area. You are having trouble with the output modules of the programmable controllers that are connected to DC control relays. These outputs are going bad at an unusually high rate, and you suspect that spike voltages produced by the relay coils are responsible. To test your theory, you connect an oscilloscope to an output that is operating a DC relay coil and watch the display when the programmable controller turns the relay off. You discover that there is a high voltage spike produced by the relay. What device would you use to correct this problem, and how would you install it?
You are an electrician working in a plant that uses programmable controliers to parform much of the logic for the motor controls. The plant produces highly flammable chemicals, so the programmable controllers use a 24-volt DC output that is intrinsically safe in a hazardous area. You are having trouble with the output modules of the programmable controllers that are connected to DC control relays. These outputs are going bad at an unusually high rate, and you suspect that spike voltages produced by the relay coils are responsible. To test your theory, you connect an oscilloscope to an output that is operating a DC relay coil and watch the display when the programmable controller turns the relay off. You discover that there is a high voltage spike produced by the relay. What device would you use to correct this problem, and how would you install it?
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