[DeTomaso] Condenser relay

[Larry - Ohio Time]

Nick,

Back in the day I would service school clock systems. They were impulse
systems, once a minute the relay could close for 3 seconds (that is 1440
times a day). They were 24 VDC with high amp draw. When a contact opens you
will get a small arch across the contacts, doing harm to them.

Now the rest of the story...

Let's think about your old original distributor. In there you had points
(contacts) and a CONDENCER. The job of the condenser was to absorb some of
the arch that would want to jump across the points (contacts) keeping them
from burning up.

In the schools I would install a condenser and resistor(bleeds off the power
in the capacitor)to save the contacts.


What you need to do is buy a bigger better really. But now you know why...


Larry (well you asked) - Cleveland



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From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com] On Behalf
Of nick mcintosh sr
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2016 1:25 PM
To: detomaso at server.detomasolist.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] Condenser relay

Does anyone know what would cause a condenser ran relay to go bad?
I replaced one and a year later its bad again.
Nick
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