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Re: Topband: Relays in *TX* array

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Subject: Re: Topband: Relays in *TX* array
From: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:13:28 -1000
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Regarding contact spacing:
> "From the sounds of the "CLUNK" that they make, I speculate some of the air 
> gaps in these clunkers are massive."

> You cannot necessarily judge the amount of contact spacing on a sealed relay 
> by the "clunk" that they make, because some are 

> "designed to self-clean by 'wiping' itself clean"

>  So, the armature moves a much greater distance than the contacts move. The 
> "clunk" is the armature hitting it's stop. Not the contacts making connection.
>   

DE N6KB

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