At 03:20 PM 4/22/97 -0400, Vincent Fedele wrote:
>You can not open a vacuum relay with voltage present at the contacts, as
>an internal arc will ionize metal off of the contacts in the process of
>opening same.
Wouldn't an arc only be present if current was being drawn? My line of
thinking was that the tube was in cut-off and no current would flow,
therefore no problem. Obviously this wasn't the case. :)
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