HOW TO PICK A RELAY

  1. Contacts: where most misapplications begin or How to save $35 and lose a half-million dollar missile
  2. Some mechanical aspects of the relay or Did you hear the one about the independent poles?
  3. Coil voltage: no performance spec is independent or How an automatic firing system decided to make love not war
  4. Contact duty: dry circuit to heavy load or How to keep a sub on the up and up
  5. Non-resistive loads: another common relay misapplication or How to keep 130 people in the dark at 30,000 feet
  6. Specmanship and relay reliability or It's not what you've got, it's how you say it
  7. Relay coil suppression or How to keep an airline pilot on the straight and narrow
  8. Relay, reliability, part II or There's no such thing as a free lunch
  9. High Voltage 3-Minute Time Delays, Transients & You or :30, :29, :28, Zap! (Oops!)
  10. Clearing the multi-definitioned air of time delay relay terminology or How to say what you mean, not just what you say
  11. The story behind a time delay relay specification or Man Does Not Live By MIL-STD-704 Alone

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