[TowerTalk] infos about relay type.

Bill Turner dezrat at copper.net
Thu Feb 15 12:40:15 EST 2007


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On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:02:14 -0500, VE2RYY <ve2ryy at globetrotter.net>
 wrote:

>Now I was told to put big relays in the parasitic, I mean relays with very good space bewteen the contacts, but I find these relays very big .They look like 30 amps power relays.
>I wonder if anybody could give his advice on this fact...

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Relays always have a certain amount of parasitic capacitance between
the relay armature and the coil winding. To isolate this, be sure to
put adequate RF chokes right at the coil terminals. 

73, Bill W6WRT


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