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| Although bistable relays boast significant advantages, their use appears limited to niche applications, probably because their practical use...

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| Some relays will become warm if they remain energised for some time. The circuit shown here will actuate the relay as before but then reduce...

| With battery-operated equipment there’s always the risk of batteries being inserted the wrong way around. Although a diode or a bridge recti...

| With extended periods of bright sunshine and warm weather, even relatively large storage batteries in solar-power systems can become rather...

| Relays are often used as electrically controlled switches. Unlike transistors, their switch contacts are electrically isolated from the cont...

| Bistable relays are particularly useful in applications where very low power consumption is important. This is because they only use a littl...

| There exist special types of relay that have peculiar characteristics. Next to the ‘normal’ types in the catalogue we find the so-called ‘la...

| The DMX demultiplexer, which was described in Elektor Electronics recently, enables you to drive eight analogue outputs with a control volta...