Hello:
Thanks to all for your thoughts.
I ended up doing the reed relay trick. I used 12awg wire, 4 wraps around the
body of the relay. It flickers just a bit, then locks on and gets my
indicator lamp running. I didn't want to use less then 12awg wire as I was
afraid of getting in trouble (the original cable is 10 awg). I could only
get 4 wraps, so I went with that......


"jon doe" wrote in message
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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