My research is leading me to believe they are capable of 0-10v, up to 20mA. I cut an old network cable up, found the ground and 0-10v for the varspd1 port and measured 10v when I used fusion to switch it on. I then linked the outlet to my alarm outlet and verified that I git the 10v out the varspd1 when I manually switch the alarm on.
So far so good
I then hooked up a short section of led tape to the wires, and it lit up indicating I got some current out.
The current was not enough to switch a regular 12v automotive relay that I had laying around.
I could order a mechanical 6v auto relay (spdt) but I doubt there’s enough juice to trigger the coil either.
I’ve found some opto-isolated 6v relay boards on
amazon, but they have the signal ground and the vcc ground pins tied together. I need to find some boards with completely isolated coil input and power output.
I read a thread by
@RussM that was trying this but it was light on specific details due to a liability issue with potentially frying your apex if hooked up wrong
Anyway- I was hoping I could use them to trigger alarm state leds, but I might go back to my original plan and run a spdt 12v relay off one eb8 outlet, switching between a red tape and a green tape powered from a second eb8 outlet. Seems kinda clunky to use two outlets when I have unused varspd x 4 on my head unit
