voltage free contacts
voltage free contacts
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Would anyone be kind enough to explain to me how a voltage free contact actually works?
Luke.
Luke.
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RE: voltage free contacts
The most obvious example is a pair of relay contacts, which are truly volt-free. A common sort of output is the open-collector transistor stage. This is not volt-free since its base and emitter are referenced to the driver circuit and one supply rail, usually ground. Opto-isolators are arguably semi volt-free as they provide high voltage isolation between input and output, but the floating transistor can only drive certain kinds of other circuits and not an a.c.load directly.
RE: voltage free contacts
if you use a meter whether in AC or DC scale these contact has no potential at all with respect to ground or any part of a circuit ... but this contact is still being actuated by an electromagnet..
another word use in industry for this is "dry contact"..
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