5V 500mA Reed Relay – DIP, 7x19.5mm

Relays are awesome little tools that, despite being rather simple in design, offer a wide range of different uses and benefits. To start, relays are very often used for controlling high-power circuits with low voltage control circuits, which of course helps isolate and protect any users from the high-power circuitry and potential leaks or other faults. However, here in the hobbyist world, we also like to use them as handy switches, similar to MOSFETs or transistors, and relays allow us to use standard microcontrollers like Arduino boards to control various other circuits from 5V up to the max rating of the relay.

This 5V Reed Relay can be mounted directly onto your printed circuit boards, offering up to 200V AC 0.5A switching for controlling reed switches. They offer a discrete board-mount style with 5V control and are capable of switching your reed switches. These little relays are a great choice for almost any hobbyist electronics applications you can think of. From basic on/off switching functionality to simplified integration for various boards and circuits, these relays are inexpensive tools that are here to help you enjoy more control and safer operations in a wide range of projects.