[Amps] What's inside a vacuum relay?

[Gary K9GS]

Hello Ian,

I've never had one apart either but I'd guess that since there is no air
inside the contacts can be made smaller.

By making the contacts smaller they are inherently faster since they have
less mass to move??



73,
 Gary

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian White, G3SEK" <G3SEK at ifwtech.co.uk>
To: <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 02:00 AM
Subject: [Amps] What's inside a vacuum relay?


>
> Specifically, what makes them so fast?
>
> I've never seen a picture of how the typical small ITT/Jennings/Kilovac
> relays work, and they're too rare over here to justify taking one
> apart... besides, it would let all the good stuff out.
>
>
> -- 
> 73 from Ian G3SEK
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