Originally Posted by Crevice Reamer  It's just a coil. Volts is Volts. DC can energize an AC coil. It should work fine.
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No, the DC resistance of an AC coil is too low to use it on DC, the AC coil relies on inductive reactance to limit the current.
This is why a AC solenoid or relay will burn up quickly if the armature does not move over, due to the decrease in inductance, just leaving a very low resistance.
Al.