[ICOM] Relay contact trivia

[Tom Norris]

It's the little extra overtravel than would be needed needed for
simple contact closure that allows the relay contacts to "wipe"
slightly so as to keep themselves clean with each cycle.

Ain't it?

Tom

>Hello Clete,
>
>Speaking of trivia, here's a test.  Do you know what "follow" is? 
>This is a very important characteristic of relay contacts and keeps 
>them clean.
>
>73, Joe, K1ike
>Ex step-by-step springbender from many years ago....
>
>
>At 09:24 AM 7/30/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>>de WB2CPN           2004.07.30
>>
>>Trivia (a little off) pertaining to the care
>>and feeding of relay contacts in ICOM gear:
>>At AT&T we placed a small current on cable
>>pairs that were used for carrier transmission.
>>Any poor connections, (high resistance), were
>>made to look like a forward biased diode.
>>"Sealing Current" not used on Plain Old
>>Telephone pairs because they already had DC
>>current on them.   Bye
>>
>>73  Clete
>
>
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