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Assignment: Reed Relay: College of Industrial Technology Electronics Department Room 424

This document discusses reed relays and their components. Reed relays use an electromagnet to control one or more reed switches sealed in a glass tube to protect the contacts. A reed relay contains a reed switch enclosed in a solenoid. The contacts are made of magnetic material that moves under the influence of the solenoid's magnetic field. Reed relays can switch faster than larger relays and require little power. They have applications in automatic test equipment, electronic instrumentation, RF and microwave switching, and extremely low current circuits.

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Assignment: Reed Relay: College of Industrial Technology Electronics Department Room 424

This document discusses reed relays and their components. Reed relays use an electromagnet to control one or more reed switches sealed in a glass tube to protect the contacts. A reed relay contains a reed switch enclosed in a solenoid. The contacts are made of magnetic material that moves under the influence of the solenoid's magnetic field. Reed relays can switch faster than larger relays and require little power. They have applications in automatic test equipment, electronic instrumentation, RF and microwave switching, and extremely low current circuits.

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College of Industrial Technology

Electronics Department
Room 424

Assignment:
Reed Relay

GROUP 1
VALEROSO, NEIL ALDRIN C.
MUNDA, JOHN DAVID C.
CORTEZ, REIMER GRACE A.
SUPANG, BRIAN NOLI G.

BSECE 2D

PROF. VILLANUEVA

Reed Switch
A reed relay is a type of relay that
uses an electromagnet to control one or
more reed switches. The contacts are of
magnetic material and the electromagnet
acts directly on them without requiring an
armature to move them. Sealed in a long,
narrow glass tube, the contacts are
protected from corrosion, and are usually
plated with silver, which has very low
resistivity but is prone to corrosion when
exposed, rather than corrosion-resistant
but more resistive gold as used in the
exposed contacts of high quality relays.
The glass envelope may contain multiple
reed switches or multiple reed switches can be inserted into a single bobbin
and actuate simultaneously. Reed switches have been manufactured since
the 1930s.
A reed relay is a reed switch enclosed in a solenoid. The switch has a
set of contacts inside an evacuated or inert gas-filled glass tube which
protects the contacts against atmospheric corrosion; the contacts are made
of magnetic material that makes them move under the influence of the field
of the enclosing solenoid or an external magnet.
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relays can switch faster than larger relays and require


little power from the control circuit. However, they
have relatively low switching current and
voltage ratings. Though rare, the reeds
become magnetized over time, which
them stick 'on' even when no current is
changing the orientation of the reeds with respect
solenoid's magnetic field can resolve this
problem.
Sealed contacts with mercury-wetted contacts
longer operating lives and less contact chatter
other kind of relay.

Mercury-wetted Reed Relay


A mercury-wetted reed relay is a
form of reed relay in which the
contacts are wetted with mercury. Such
relays are used to switch low-voltage
signals (one volt or less) where the
mercury reduces the contact resistance
and associated voltage drop, for lowcurrent
signals
where
surface
contamination may make for a poor
contact, or for high-speed applications
where the mercury eliminates contact
bounce. Mercury wetted relays are position-sensitive and must be mounted
vertically to work properly. Because of the toxicity and expense of liquid
mercury, these relays are now rarely used.
The mercury-wetted relay has one particular advantage, in that the
contact closure appears to be virtually instantaneous, as the mercury
globules on each contact coalesce. The current rise time through the
contacts is generally considered to be a few picoseconds, however in a
practical circuit it will be limited by the inductance of the contacts and
wiring. It was quite common, before the restrictions on the use of mercury,
to use a mercury-wetted relay in the laboratory as a convenient means of
generating fast rise time pulses, however although the rise time may be
picoseconds, the exact timing of the event is, like all other types of relay,
subject to considerable jitter, possibly milliseconds, due to mechanical
imperfections.
The same coalescence process causes another effect, which is a
nuisance in some applications. The contact resistance is not stable
immediately after contact closure, and drifts, mostly downwards, for several
seconds after closure, the change perhaps being 0.5 ohm.

Applications for Reed Relays:

Reed arrays passed out of use in the mid-1990s, being


unnecessary in true electronic (digital) telephone systems such as
DMS-100 and 5ESS switch. Reed relays have continued in their uses
outside the telephone industry such as for automatic test equipment
and electronic instrumentation due to their hermetic seal, fast operate
time, extended life to 109 operations and highly consistent contact
performance. Reed relays have also found numerous applications in
RF and microwave switching applications.[2] They are also used in
applications which make use of their extremely low leakage current
(in the order of femtoamperes) such as photomultiplier detectors and
other extremely low current handling circuits. Reed switches can also
be manufactured to withstand several kilovolts and are still used as
high-voltage relays in place of more costly sulfur hexafluoride or
vacuum relays.

Other Application of Reed Relay

Broadcasting and video equipment


Security
Mobile phone base stations
Instrumentation
Process Control
Automatic Test and Measurement Equipment
Industrial

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