Sometimes, the most unexpected detours lead to the most interesting discoveries. After a brief break, I found myself revisiting latching relays—not just as components, but as puzzles waiting to be ...

Over the years, control relays of various types have been used by the hundreds — even thousands — to control nearly every function in commercial and industrial processes. Today, many of those ...

A single-coil latching relay is a relay with memory, usually with a magnetic structure that provides two stable positions for the armature that holds the movable contacts. A permanent magnet provides ...

Camden Door Controls, a premier provider of door activation and locking devices, has added the new CX-LRS series latching relays, enabling the use of momentary ‘request for assistance’ switches, to ...

Same Sky has introduced a family of latching power relays with single or double coils, and 10 to 20A ratings. PRL relays, as they will be known, have silver alloy contacts and come in SPST (1 Form A), ...

Most of Europe’s 240 million electricity meters are expected to be replaced by smart meters by 2020. It is currently estimated that approximately 78 million of these meters will need to use AC ...

Raspberry Pi enthusiasts building projects incorporating relays may be interested in a new piece of hardware created by Sequent Microsystems, offering up to 32 relays in a single project. This ...

Power relays are specifically designed to handle either AC or DC. It’s important to know the fundamental differences between them before building them into a system. Introduction to AC and DC Power ...