Electrical – Solid State Relay Stuck in Closed Position

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I'm building a simple circuit to control a 100W that takes 30-34V using a 30V LED power supply with constant current of 3.2A. I am controlling the switching of the LED with a Crydom DC60S5 connected to an Arduino Yun and the LED power supply with the following wiring:

Circuit Configuration

Here is a photo of the actual wiring:

Actual Wiring

The problem is that when I plug in the power without even connecting the Arduino (nothing connected to terminals 3 and 4 on the relay, just as seen in the picture) the LED switches on. I've double checked that I have the DC60S5 relay, not the DC60S5-B which defaults to closed. If the circuit is unplugged and I do a continuity check with my multimeter across terminals 1 and 2 I don't get any beeping, and measured resistance is too high to register. If I put a 9V battery across the inputs the resistance drops to 60kOhm. This is confusing since 60kOhm is the AC impedance as stated in the data sheet, but I have the Crydom DC60S5 not the Crydom DC60SA5 which is the AC controlled model of this relay so I would have expected to get 1.5kOhm resistance as stated in the data sheet for DC control.

The relay doesn't seem broken, since I can still control it with a battery and measure it turning on/off. However without anything connected to the inputs it defaults to on which is not the expected behavior. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to what I might be doing wrong here?

Best Answer

That's simple: you have swaped the polarity on the SSR output, so the current goes trough freewheling diode to the load. The correct wiring is this

schematic

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