[Amps] What's inside a vacuum relay?

[R.Measures]

=F0  Not all vacuum relays are all that fast.  The HC-1 and RJ-1A are=20
fast because they have only one movable contact -- i. e., they are=20
SPDT.   DPDT and 3PDTvacuum relays are comparable in speed to=20
conventional relays.

On May 1, 2004, at 12:00 AM, Ian White, G3SEK wrote:

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> Specifically, what makes them so fast?
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> I've never seen a picture of how the typical small=20
> ITT/Jennings/Kilovac relays work, and they're too rare over here to=20
> justify taking one apart... besides, it would let all the good stuff=20=

> out.
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>
> --=20
> 73 from Ian G3SEK
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