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πŸ“ Raspberry Power Expansion Module by Electronics Salon Review

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Description of πŸ“ Raspberry Power Expansion Module by Electronics Salon

Supports Raspberry Pi A+ / B+ / 2B / 3B, the RPi Relay Board gives your Pi the ability to control high voltage/high current devices, easily makes normal home appliances become intelligent. High quality Panasonic JS1-5V-F power relays, loads up to 10Amp/250VAC, 5Amp 30VDC. One LED for power and three LEDs for relays status indicating. Darlington transistors circuit driving relay, improve the reliability of action. Relay control jumper, allows to control the relays by custom pins other than the default pins. Terminal blocks: pitch - 5.0mm/0.197", wire size 26~12 AWG / 2.5mm square, stripping length 7mm/0.28", Metric M2.5 slotted screw. 2 x 20 pins expansion pin header, height 10mm/0.39". Package included: 1x RPi Relay Board, 4x M2.5 14mm brass standoffs, 8x M2.5x4mm metal screws.

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Revainrating 5 out of 5

Good relay output board with few features

Pros: Easy assembly, works without modifications, good use of LEDs for power and operation indication. Torque limiter - using a suitable screwdriver, I ripped off a mounting screw just to remove it. Using mounting screws makes it difficult to find housing for the RPi and relay board. All in all a very good board for the price and I would buy it again.

Pros
  • Best
Cons
  • Ugly packaging

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Absolutely better than connecting separate relays

I had a set of three relays which I connected to the PI one at a time, but the relay's signal wires can be disconnected or unsoldered and some equipment I never would have stayed must. I ended up having to write scripts that would turn off the relay, then physically check it to make sure it was off, then turn on an alarm if it sucked, etc. That completely changed the game for me haha. The pins fit right into the Pi's pins, so I don't have to worry about losing connections, and since the relays…

Pros
  • Rugged design
Cons
  • Was damaged

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Great for the price and needs some tweaking (for n00b) but works great!

I'm an Arduino user and have a few Rasp Pis and other things like OpenSprinkler, but I wanted to start making an attic fan controller project and experiment with it. I'm dabbling with python and other stuff and have only had a few hours playing with it since it just came out, but I've used the demos and code that comes with the Waveshare product. Being new to RasPi/Linux it still took a few hours (and that damn GoT ending got in the way!) but I was able to run all the code samples, on/off tests

Pros
  • Pleasant
Cons
  • Legacy