Latching Relay to Use a Momentary Button

Ok I know that you can make a latching relay with the diagram provided on this site. I have done it and it works great for my application. the only problem is that it takes a little while to set up, it doesn't look the nicest, and it is rather large. I was even using 4 mini relays but it was still a little to big because I plan on using a few of them.

What I'm hoping to find is a 12 volt latching relay, I will use a momentary push button to turn on and off the latching relay. the latching relay will provide a trigger to activate a regular 30/40 amp relay.

if anyone knows where I can get a latching relay, maybe something that I could put on a PCB board that would be awesome.

Jonathan

check out this thread. haha, i had the same question too. finally one of the guys found something. it wasnt what i wanted originally, but its gonna work just fine.

https://www.the12volt.com/installbay/forum_posts.asp?tid=110908&KW=ckeeler&tpn=1

https://www.the12volt.com/relays/page5.asp#lsp

This is the diagram that I was talking about. I was able to make it with mini relays and it worked great its just a little big.

I cannot believe that there is no readily available product that can do this.

the 0047 looks like it will do what I'm looking to do. were you ever able to find a place to purchase them? how much do they run?

http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=255-2193-ND are you saying that this relay will not work? because you could not apply a negative pulse to it to turn it on and another negative pulse to turn it off. also 5 bucks is a little pricey for me.

Thanks,

Jonathan

if you read the data sheet for that relay on digikey you will see it doesnt work like you want it to. in order to latch and unlatch the load contacts, the polarity on the coil contacts has to be flip-flopped back and forth.

the 0047 is more than $5.

I kind of figured that it would be hard to find a smaller, cheap solution. Either I will have to make my own and have it take up a lot of room or pay a lot of money.

if only I could adapt something like this to work off of negative triggers instead of a remote it would be perfect.

http://www.electrokits.com/electronics/relays-remotes-switches-timers/37.htm

well thanks for your help.

Jonathan

Thank You Wizard! i never knew about this product. looks perfect! i will try a few.

There is a component called a D Flip Flop that can be set up in toggle mode that will toggle it's output between on and off each time the button is pushed.  They are very cheap and work well (as long as you debounce the input). 

Schematics (with debounced input) should be easy to find on the net.

cool, as for the dei 611t. it looks like it will do exactly what I want it to do, but again the size and price (low of about 13 bucks) it will not fit what I'm looking for.

as for the latch/ unlatch it will not work for my application, that would require an on and an off button so it would use 2 momentary buttons instead of the one that I'm looking to control it.

the D flip flop has me confused as heck. but with some quick searching it looks like it would take quite a few resistors and transistors to get it working again going back to the size thing.

I found a page that shows how to make it with a transistor, a few resistors a cap and a relay http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Bill_Bowden/page9.htm#toggle3.gif

that site also shows a few different ways to make something similar. this is the main page and the ones that look like they will work are on the right side of the page under "Miscellaneous" and "Circuits Controlling Relays" some use 555 chips and others use MOSFET0s. now I just have to figure out how to use and what theses components are. the schematics look pretty simple but I do now know what a few of the components are on some.

once I figure out what they are there is also the question of how much do they cost.

as of right now I can make a messy looking but functional "Latched On/Off Output Using a Single Momentary Pulse" like shown on this site. here is mine

The top looks nice, I even added another plug part for power, ground and output. the plug on there is for the button with also has an led in it.

But this is the bottom, it is a little neater after I added the plug for power, ground, and the output but it is still messy:

Since I plan on using 4 or more buttons, making and placing 4 of these plus the 30/40 amp relays these will trigger that would take a lot of time and take up a lot of room.

that's why I was hoping to find a single cheep latching on off relay. but it seams I will have to do some fabricating and circuit building to get what I'm looking for.

Thanks for the help.

Jonathan