RelayMate Book - Get Your FREE Second Edition Now

This educational book is now packed with even more comprehensive insights into the functioning of reed relays, their construction, interpreting specifications, and making the best use of them in their applications.

The contents also covers guidelines for PCB construction when Reed Relays are to be used. This includes some surface mount reed relay best practices.

It is intended to be a practical book about reed relays aimed at engineers. It requires little or no theoretical knowledge about the materials they are constructed from, all the issues are dealt with in a practical manner.

Contents include:

• Reed Relay Basics
• Comparing Reed Relays with other Relay technologies
• Packaging Reed Relays
• Manufacturing Test of Reed Relays
• Understanding Specifications
• Choosing a Reed Relay
• Placing and Driving a Reed Relay Coil
• Avoiding Failure Models
• Manufacturing PCBs with Reed Relays
• Glossary of Relay Terminology

With the information supplied in this book, we hope users will better understand the efforts that go into designing what in principle is a simple component but which in practice is a complicated product full of engineering compromises and best value judgements.

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