Since the mid-1980s, semiconductor technology has promised to provide smart power products for solid-state relays that could carry high current and provide unique functions for customers. However, ...

Here’s a MEMS relay with an integrated FET that can handle higher power levels, breaking away from the “low power” moniker associated with MEMS parts. Paul Rako takes a closer look at what makes this ...

Relays and contactors use a variety of technologies to switch signals and power connections. Many devices called relays use similar techniques and topologies, but the terminology can be confusing.

Discover how today’s digital protective relays outperform legacy electromechanical systems in reliability, diagnostics, and ...

Pickering to include a new variant with an electrostatic shield between the switch and the coil to help minimise noise.

Intelligent Motor Protection for Modern Industrial Plants The NewElec MA-Relay is engineered to protect your motors from the ...

Omron has designed a relay that can interrupt 200A at 500V, aiming to displace contactors from dc electric vehicle chargers, batteries and solar inverters. “A proprietary gas-less design cools arcs ...

Global revenue in the aircraft relay and contactor market has declined by more than 20 percent as a result of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The market decline is expected to stabilize in 2021, ...

Last column, I wrote about various applications where fire alarm relays could be used to integrate a commercial fire alarm system with other electrical systems at a customer’s site to provide them ...

There are several factors in taking a particular design approach, and they are not always independent. Some of the considerations when designing drivers for inductive loads are size, cost, switching ...

A generally accepted fact about relays and solenoids is that after they’re driven into the actuated state, only half as much coil voltage and therefore only one fourth as much coil power, are required ...