Typically no. Lighting relays in most cases are not designed for
continuous duty. They're rated differently. Google 'continuous duty
relay' and you'll learn the differences. Buy a lighting relay and
you'll be replacing it. Buy a continuous duty relay and you'll buy just
one. The ones I use look like a metal cased Ford starter solenoid (but
they're not).

For starters, this is a fairly decent discussion:
<www.napanet.net/~arbeau/swift/relay.htm>

Jim

On Friday, July 8, 2005, at 07:04 PM, Edward Maglott wrote:

> If the typical relay is sold for lighting applications, wouldn't that
> be
> continuous duty?
> Edward