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    A reed relay is a type of relay that uses an electromagnet to control one or more reed switches. The contacts are of magnetic material and the electromagnet...
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    at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1936 by Walter B. Ellwood into the reed relay. In its simplest and most common form, it consists of a pair of ferromagnetic...
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    alternatives, they are now comparatively uncommon. A mercury-wetted reed relay is a form of reed relay that employs a mercury switch, in which the contacts are wetted...
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  • decoding Reed relay, one or more reed switches controlled by an electromagnet Reed switch, an electrical switch operated by an applied magnetic field Reed valve...
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  • example, a reed relay matrix switch is normally switched with all contacts dry. After the contacts are all connected, a wire spring relay is energized...
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    relay is used instead. This combines the speed of a low-mass relay, together with the fast wetting of mercury contacts. A relay, usually a reed relay...
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    core, making them magnetically latching relays, similar to the ferreed and remreed types of reed relay. Reed relays are smaller and cheaper, thus better...
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  • switching systems in the 1960s were not entirely digital in nature, but used reed relay-operated metallic paths or crossbar switches operated by stored program...
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    force due to rate of rotation Relay or contactor – Electro-mechanically operated switch (see also solid state relay above) Reed switch – Magnetically activated...
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    Transformer Varistor Wire Wollaston wire Reactive Capacitor types Ceramic resonator Crystal oscillator Inductor Parametron Relay reed relay mercury relay...
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    Transformer Varistor Wire Wollaston wire Reactive Capacitor types Ceramic resonator Crystal oscillator Inductor Parametron Relay reed relay mercury relay...
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    Transformer Varistor Wire Wollaston wire Reactive Capacitor types Ceramic resonator Crystal oscillator Inductor Parametron Relay reed relay mercury relay...
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    Contactor (category Relays)
    container as the switching element. A mercury-wetted relay is a form of relay, usually a reed relay, in which the contacts are wetted with mercury. These...
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    reduced to reset the relay. A variant application of the attraction principle is the plunger-type or solenoid operator. A reed relay is another example...
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    rate-of-climb instrument, the electronic variometer, or serve as a timer for a relay as was formerly done in telephone exchanges. The electrical power input...
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    style Rotary switch, 1P4T, make-before-break, shorting style Reed switch, normally open Relays symbols are a combination of an inductor symbol and switch...
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    computers such as EDVAC tended to average eight hours between failures, whereas relay computers—such as the slower but earlier Harvard Mark I—failed very rarely...
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    quickly, creating a large voltage across the open circuit of the switch or relay. If the inductance is large enough, the energy may generate a spark, causing...
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  • applications could include those involving computer control of motors or relays, where the current is amplified from a safe low level of the computer output...
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    controlled reed relays, and this looked promising. One of Ericsson's marketing points for crossbar was that it used precious-metal contacts, but reed relays would...
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    Transformer Varistor Wire Wollaston wire Reactive Capacitor types Ceramic resonator Crystal oscillator Inductor Parametron Relay reed relay mercury relay...
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