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Default Automotive relay question

On 10/19/2014 3:30 AM, DaveC wrote:
It's usually a suppression resistor. Bosch used them a lot.


So the resistor dissipates the coil energy as the magnetic field collapses?
You still get back-emf; more than with a diode but less than without
anything?

This one is a Bosch.

Thanks.

Pretty much.