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Default Active device nonsense


"Jerry Peters"
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"Jerry Peters"

An active device uses one signal [current, voltage] to control another.

So a relay is an active device?



** Trying to define a word or term *out of context* is doomed to failure.


It's called reductio ad absurdum, it's a rhetorical technique Phil.



** I figured you were being facetious.

But YOU failed to see the discussion is only about "electronic devices" .

Which relays are not.


..... Phil