Project Description

This is a very dangerous project if not being handled carefully. Please take extra precaution and other safety measure when dealing with high voltage. Never ever have exposed high voltage wires lying around. It can be fatal. Take care.

The digital output card has 3 output (maximum only 2 operating simultaneously) ports.

The output port is tied to pin D5 and D6 of osPID main board:

  • Pin D5 is configured to drive a relay.
  • Pin D6 is configured to either drive a relay or an external SSR.

To drive the relay (not soldered by default) on pin D6, the selection jumper need to configured as below:

Jumper Relay
To drive an external SSR on pin D6, the selection jumper need to be configured as below:

Jumper SSR

To decide whether you need to use the on board relay or an external SSR depends on the following requirements:

  • Do you need the osPID unit and the load voltage to be optically isolated?
  • Is the load current exceed that of the on board relay?
  • Do you have some allergy towards relay clicking sound?
Using On-board Relay

If you have chosen to use the on board relay driven by pin D5 (labelled as Relay 2 on the card), you’ll need to connect the live (hot) wire into the VL spot (5th terminal from the top) and another wire to your load (oven, heater). Please take note of the wire size required to carry the load current in your setup.

Relay Output Wiring

Using External Solid State Relay (SSR)

If you have chosen to use an external SSR driven by pin D6 (labelled as SSR on the card), depending on the hardware revision of your digital output card, the wiring should be as follows:

v1.50 v1.70
  • Connect a wire from CTRL spot (1st terminal from the top) to the positive control terminal of your external SSR.
  • Connect another wire from GND spot (2nd terminal from the top) to the negative terminal of your external SSR.
  • Connect a wire from CTRL+ spot (2nd terminal from the top) to the positive control terminal of your external SSR.
  • Connect another wire from GND spot (1st terminal from the top) to the negative terminal of your external SSR.
 SSR Wiring Digital Output v1.50 SSR Wiring Digital Output v1.70

 

It is recommended to use a color coded wires in the setup.

SSR Output Wiring

Depending on your output selection, you might need to configure the osPID unit to drive the selected output port. By default, the osPID unit is shipped with a firmware that uses pin D5 as it’s output port.
If you need to change the default configuration, you can do this through the osPID front end software. Under the “CONFIG” tab in the front end software (settings will only appear once the osPID unit is connected), you can configure the output to be either on-board relay or digital output (referring to driving an external SSR). Once you have selected the desired output, you’ll need to send configuration to the osPID unit:

Digital Output Frontend Configuration