On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 23:35:48 -0500, "jon doe" wrote:

Hi:
Looking for a simple circuit idea that will tell us when a 12V DC load is
activated. This is a critical load so we don't want to do anything that will
make it unreliable. The circuit just has to activate a tiny relay when the
load is going. Any ideas?
Thanks

Take a reed relay element and take a number of turns of your load wire
around it! If the required switched load is too great for the reed
then slave it through a larger relay!
Cannot get much simpler than that!

Richard

Nb "Pound Eater" Parkend G+S
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