Over my almost 60 years in the auto repair industry as an ASE and GM Master Technician, and vocational education automotive technology instructor, I have seen firsthand how vehicles have evolved from ...

Generations of owners of German cars, struggling with maddeningly hard-to-diagnose electrical problems, would pull out these relays and test them in the (usually futile) hope that a simple $7.95 relay ...

Latching relays latch mechanically or magnetically so you don’t have to maintain current running through the coil to keep them on. Latching relays latch mechanically or magnetically so you don’t have ...

Proper selection and effective testing can increase contact reliability in the end product while reducing the overall cost of using relays. Who said relays are pass�? While electromechanical relays ...

Equipped with long-life solid-state relays, VTI Instruments’ EX1200-3824 multiplexer offers eight banks of 1×24 one-wire switching. With its 100-V input range, the multiplexer can be used for ...

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 ...