{"id":2848,"date":"2023-09-19T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/09\/19\/the-art-of-electronics-4-boom-putting-diodes-across-relay-coils\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:04","slug":"the-art-of-electronics-4-boom-putting-diodes-across-relay-coils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/09\/19\/the-art-of-electronics-4-boom-putting-diodes-across-relay-coils\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Art of Electronics&#8221; #4    Boom!  Putting Diodes Across Relay Coils"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/AoE20Diode20across20transformer20page2043.jpeg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2125\" data-original-width=\"993\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/AoE20Diode20across20transformer20page2043.jpeg\" width=\"188\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>I think this is a good example of the practicality, and the style (BOOM!) of <i>The Art of Electronics<\/i>. This shows very nicely how failing to put a diode across a relay coil can get you into a lot of trouble. Boom, indeed. <\/b><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this is a good example of the practicality, and the style (BOOM!) of The Art of Electronics. This shows very nicely how failing to put a diode across a relay coil can get you into a lot of trouble. Boom, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-art-of-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2850,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions\/2850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}