Electromechanical components such as relays and switches often must undergo endurance tests that verify their reliability and safety. Regulatory standards typically have compliance criteria that ...

The cost of component failures continues to increase as electronic products become more complex. Most component replacement costs are associated with marginal devices that become intermittent or fail ...

Testing relays is both an art and a science. As relay technicians inevitably learn in the field, pure theory-based understanding of protective relays is not nearly enough for the real-world situations ...

Production test of a finished electronic product often involves two techniques: in-circuit test (ICT) and functional component test (FCT). The ICT technique examines a non-powered circuit board to ...

Interface relays connect computers and PLC logic devices to machines. But conventional block, modular terminal strips, and socket I/O relays are difficult to modify, and require hours of downtime for ...

Component distributor Farnell has added the products of reed relay maker Pickering Electronics to its electromechanical portfolio. “Pickering Electronics has been market leaders for more than 50 years ...

Megger’s new SMRT 36 smart protective relay test set is suited not only for testing today’s installations and legacy plant, but also for meeting the future challenges associated with testing the smart ...

What role does an SPDT relay play in test applications? What are the benefits of a MEMS-based switch? Performance advantages over legacy technology. Electromechanical relays (EMRs) are common ...