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Solid State Relays

To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net
Subject: Solid State Relays
From: rdh@sli.com (Robert D. Houk)
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 95 21:41:48 EDT
In-Reply-To: "Bob D'Amato"'s message of Mon, 25 Sep 1995 20:16:54 -0400 (EDT) <Pine.SUN.3.90.950925201446.5304D-100000@starfleet.snetel.com>
Reply-To: rdh@sli.com (or uunet!sli!rdh)
Sender: quattro-owner@coimbra.ans.net

   > Sorry, didn't know that. I though they were all made up of optically
   > coupled triacs, which is the AC variant.

   Optically coupled triacs??? (insert stupid look here) On a SS relay??? 
   No, nothing much more than a transistor array with medium forward bias 
   and PN junction.  Never took one apart, but they are pretty simple.

Yeah, but don't you still have a .3 - .7 volt drop across the junction?

					-RDH

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