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From: adams@swbatl.sbc.com (Tom Adams - 235-7459)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Open-gate TRIACs
Keywords: TRIAC
Message-ID: <1990Sep12.022022.11829@swbatl.sbc.com>
Date: 12 Sep 90 02:20:22 GMT
References: <1437@gold.GVG.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: adams@swbatl.UUCP (Tom Adams - 235-7459)
Organization: Southwestern Bell
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In article <1437@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> grege@gold.GVG.TEK.COM (Greg Ebert) writes:
>About a week ago, somebody inquired if it's OK to leave the gate of a
>TRIAC open to turn it off.
>
>I popped open an older "solid-state" relay, which is actually a reed-relay
>with the contacts in series with the gate lead of a TRIAC. So, the answer

I'm confused here.  A reed relay?  What provides the magnetic field that
operates these guys?
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