Hi, The problem is that most low thermal EMF relays (COTO, Picckering etc) use reed contacts for environment reasons, but reeds are not easy to latch. The good news is that the Omron G6 range has the options you require (and just about any other small relay option). for example the G6AK-274P-STLT-US-DC5 which is dual coil latching, 5v coils and low thermal EMF. It's about $10 from Mouser. The critical parts of the number are AK for dual coil latching, AU for single coil latching and STLT for low thermal EMF DCx is coil voltage, between 3 and 28V. Datasheet here http://www.mouser.com/ds/2/307/G6A_0911-4215.pdf
HTH, Robert G8RPI. P.S. Relay contact technology is fascinating. I once specified a lamp rated (added cadmium in contacts) version of a relay. It was controlled by a PIC driving 3 linear halogen lamps (see patent US7247429 <http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?FT=D&date=20070724&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP&CC=US&NR=7247429B2&KC=B2&ND=5> ). A couple of years in production decided that a single letter change in the part number of the relay didn't matter and saved a couple of dollars. Guess what, we got failures with welded contacts (fortunatly I'd put a thermal cutout in series with the lamps, mostly incase my PIC code fell over, so no fires :-) Took a while before field service caomplained about poor design...... Then there are the low level and power rated relays that use a gold flash over silver. Trouble is if you use it for power they will fail in low level use. A lot of mil-spec relays use this trick and I've seen problems where relay swapping for fault finding has swapped a low level with a power and back. No initial problem, but months later the contacts have gone high. Then there was the supplier who tested all the new relays - under load, DOH! On 11 July 2014 19:15, Randy Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > That is an assembly but I am looking for an individual relay part that I > can put on a PCB. > > Randy > > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Wim de Jong <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > The http://www.transmille.co.uk/8500.htm > > > > Wim de Jong > > > > _______________________________________________ > > volt-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ > > mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ > > volt-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ > > mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts > > and follow the instructions there. > > > _______________________________________________ > volt-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ volt-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts and follow the instructions there.
