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  • Date Created: 15 Dec 2015 7:05 AM Date Created
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Before Solid State Logic there were Relays

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15 Dec 2015

Here are a couple of interesting relays that I salvaged out of some older Dental X-Ray equipment. I am guessing they are 1960's era. The first one is a 24 VAC solenoid that uses a cantilever to switch between the activation of one SPDT micro switch or another.

 

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The second relay that I want to show you is actually two relays set up in such a way that each one latches the other and each one resets the other. These are 120 VAC coils and they each have 3 PDT switch configurations so I guess it is a 6 pole double touch flip flop with set and reset inputs. As a bonus in these videos you get to hear my bad voice which is a result of an idiopathic paralysis of one vocal chord. The most serious result of this affliction is that I can no longer win arguments.


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  • jw0752
    jw0752 over 10 years ago in reply to DAB +4
    Hi DAB, When I was in High School 1965 the Math Dept coughed up the funds to buy me enough relays to build a 4 digit binary adder. I built it using mains voltage and neon lights for input and output indicators…
  • jw0752
    jw0752 over 10 years ago in reply to shabaz +3
    Thanks Shabaz, I have always enjoyed working with the electronic / mechanical area of interface. Relays still make up a good portion of my builds even though there may be better ways to accomplish the…
  • DAB
    DAB over 10 years ago +3
    Great post John. During my tech school days I worked for GTE and had to hand burnish relay contacts for certain equipment. We had one engineer who was experimenting with logic circuits using relays. It…
  • shabaz
    shabaz over 10 years ago +2
    Hi John, Great videos, very cool to see the mechanical operation of these devices! I'd not seen before how these things work. It might be vintage tech, but it still has its uses. I used a modern step relay…
  • 14rhb
    14rhb over 5 years ago +1
    Hi John, What a great action and thank you for taking the time to record such interesting mechanics (otherwise these kind of things get destroyed and forgotten about). The action reminded me of a chicken…
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    14rhb over 5 years ago

    Hi John,

     

    What a great action and thank you for taking the time to record such interesting mechanics (otherwise these kind of things get destroyed and forgotten about).

     

    The action reminded me of a chicken pecking at grain image

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    14rhb over 5 years ago

    Hi John,

     

    What a great action and thank you for taking the time to record such interesting mechanics (otherwise these kind of things get destroyed and forgotten about).

     

    The action reminded me of a chicken pecking at grain image

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