I have a bunch of relays here and trying to figure out the best way to set this up on ESPs website he states that using a SSR as part of the circuit prevents the need from using a triac and octocoupler. I am using SL32s in series (values were given to antherm to figured out instead of resistors and thinking of using an omron ly2 SSR as the main relay. The circuit will eventually get more and more advanced as it is to triamp powered speakers but for now I have an under rated 800va toroid capable of 1kva for about 2hrs before heat is an issue. I found a low voltage control system that would be able to activate all the amps at the same time which would be nice and convieant but want to concentrate on a soft start / inrush limiter for now. The LY2 looks like it also has a step down transformer integrated to 24vac which is nice also. In addition to a fused iec power inlet I am also using a push button circuit breaker. I would like the sl32s to limit the inrush and provide a softstart and then have them get cut from the circuit once the amp is powered on rod Elliot seems to make this sound easy with the components I have rather then adding the triac and octocoupler and possibly some diodes by simply just hooking it up. Down the road heat, DC speaker protection and of course a 12v trigger will be added so the 3 amps and speakers are all well protected and I would like the relays to cut off the juice off at the at the mains/primaries so that everything is nice and safe with no chances of blowing anything up. So long story short, is this set up all I need to bypass the thermistors once the relay is activated? What is the best load to test it with prior to putting the primaries on my power supply and risk blowing out a bunch of stuff or damaging my toroid?