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i am trying to control the home appliances through the arduino board. when i connect the led and test it, it works good. but when i connect to the 220v appliances through relay my arduino functions with two or three controls and it gets hangs up and doesnt funtion until i press reset. please help me, where i am wrong.

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As you're not supplying much information, I'm guessing wildly. Maybe the relays draw too much current during activity or produce too much noise. Do you have a schematics of your circuitry? What are the technical details of your relays? Links for them?

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Interference from your appliance is probbly upsetting the arduino. Look for things like snubbers or surge supressors to add on to your mains appliance to cut this down.

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Do you have a schematics of your circuitry? What are the technical details of your relays? Links for them?

its a simple circuit. i am connecting my 3rd,5th,6th pin to led(getting good output). when i connect the same pins to relay and other pins of relay with 220v appliance as switch, it gets hanged up.

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Is it a 5v relay that draws less than 30ma? If not you need a transistor and a diode tp power the relay

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its a simple circuit.

Simple enough to post, so we can help you?

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My understanding based on numerous posts in this forum, is that even if the Ardy can provide the current, it should be protected from any inductive device by a diode....

(Edited a bit, didn't make sense before)

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here is the circuit.

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You certainly need a diode across the relay to absorb the EMF when you turn it off, and unless the relay coil draws less than 20mA you need to drive it via a transistor.

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please give me the transistor circuit. i am having confusion with it.

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Have a look here. About halfway down it explains using a transistor as a switch, as well as the protection diode.

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i am choosing now to use optocoupler to solve the problem. i am using optocoupler pc-817.

here is the sample optocupler diagram.

please help me to use the appropriate resistors to use with it. because i got many different resistors value in using it.

 

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Is the Arduino trying to turn on/off the light (OUTPUT), or is it trying to read it's state (INPUT)?

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Is the Arduino trying to turn on/off the light (OUTPUT), or is it trying to read it's state (INPUT)?

Arduino trying to turn on/off the 220v appliances

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Those resistor values are a good start.
The LED side goes to the arduino. The transistor side goes to another transistor that then drives the relay.