On Tue, 17 May 2011 12:53:00 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:

As one who's never used a relay before in anything critical I come up
with a dumb question...

Do relays "bounce" when they are OPENING enough to re-contact?

...Jim Thompson


They can do. It depends on the relay construction and whether you are
talking about normally open or normally closed contacts. Solve the bounce
on closing though, and you may have fixed both instances! Quite often
mechanical switches are worse than relays.

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