Re: Louder horn,cheap and easy upgrade

[Rich Weyand <weyand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:37 PM 10/7/99 -0700, Chuck Boatwright wrote:
> > 
>In any case, stick with the relay, since the back surge of current
>from the relay is really small.  If you are really worried,
>feed the relay from a JFET, and let the JFET take the back surge.

Why not just put a 1N5400 diode across the switch contacts to bypass the surge?


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