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Teardown of an eBay 25A Solid State Relay. (SSR)

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Big Clive opens a cheap eBay 25A solid state relay and finds a triac rated well below the label; cited when people ask what is inside these SSRs.

Watch for: the internal triac rating compared with the 25A on the case

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See also Big Clive's Teardown of an eBay 25A Solid State Relay (SSR).

Transistor on electronics.stackexchange.com, May 2019. CC BY-SA.

It's definitely a counterfeit, however, so it can only be trusted at up to around 10 amps according to my research (AC counterfeit versions were reviewed well here and here; I'd expect the DC version to have similar results, but I haven't found reviews for the DC version specifically).

weildish on electronics.stackexchange.com, Mar 2018. CC BY-SA.

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