"Jasen Betts" bravely wrote to "Roy J. Tellason" (27
Mar 04  20:12:02)
 --- on the heady topic of "{at}%^{at}#$%^ veroboard"

 JB> 26-Mar-04 14:36:16, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Jasen Betts

 JB>> the really old ones were bimetalic.

 RJT> I thought that most of them still were!

 JB> I've not seen them for sale here... maybe it gets too hot?

 JB>> those capacitor ones don't work to well when they get hot...
 JB>> (I've not compared a bimetalic one's performance)

 RJT> The one I've got disassembled on my desk here has three
 RJT> connection points, with the bimetallic strip between two of them
 RJT> and contact points for the load between two of them

 JB> biumetalic strip= heater ?

 JB> constacts NO or NC

 RJT> Maybe it's not a flasher?

 JB> there's a bunch of diffrerent ways they can use them

I've seen another type with 2 relay coils and a capacitor in the same
module case style as the other relays. I'm guessing it must form a
multivibrator or a delay circuit. Not sure if it was the flasher relay
or the interior light delay circuit. It was in a Ford Windstar. I had
to pull one out because the lights wouldn't turn off one time. Turned
out to be a sticky latch switch in the tail door and that misbehaved
only when the weather was cold.

 Mike
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