activity on 5 v relay by power but not from pin

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Interfacing
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hy everybody ,please can you help me , I'm trying to use this relay

http://www.omron.com/ecb/products/pry/111/g5v_2.html

to power 0n -off a 12 v separate power line to a led strip, the contact changes ,clicks when I try exiting the relay by the 5v arduino output, but not when I operate by a pin ,using digitalwrite ,and I remember I did it one time last year with a similar (but not same) relay and this same scketch .. any idea? many thanks

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found! it was on the italian arduino's site , if anybody needs it :

http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1244102665

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The 5V version of that relay requires 100mA, Arduino pins only source 20mA. The high-sensitivity version wants 30mA which is still too high. So a drive transistor is required as in the link.

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