Test Equipment Applications
Test equipment applications, by their very nature, tend to impose difficult requirements on relays. The overall criterion is for reliable, repeatable, and consistent results. Without this, no piece of test equipment can be considered usable.
Kilovac relays have some special characteristics which contribute to their wide application in test equipment.
- The relay contacts are in a controlled environment. Dust, humidity, or infrequent use will not affect the relay's performance.
- Kilovac vacuum relays have extremely low and stable contact resistance since oxides cannot form on the contacts. Even when load switching, contact resistance will vary within a very narrow range.
- Since they are designed for high voltage isolation, Kilovac relays offer extremely high insulation resistance and very low current leakage. This is an advantage in many switching matrices where these values must be kept as low and repeatable as possible.
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