OT-ish... what to do with > 400 relays...

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu Feb 19 18:15:19 2004

On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 23:43, John Lawson wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
>
> > Polling list wisdom here...
> >
> > Hmm, any suggestions for anything creative to do with around 450 or so
> > 5V relays? I have a bucket full here (literally).
>
>
> Form? Contacts? terminal type?

D'oh, I put that in and then managed to obviously slice it out before I
hit send :/

Majority of them are just DPDT types, with a few even just SPDT. Not, I
suspect, enough poles to do anything serious with. They're all
PCB-mounting miniture types (honking great things with open contacts
would be nice, but I wouldn't have the space to store them even if
someone gave me a pile of them!). No idea of switch speed, but then
maximum speed would not be a design goal anyway!

They were pulled from a pile of phone exchange boards; the various CPUs,
ROM, RAM and a few useful logic chips + transistors were what I was
really after as usable spares, but it seemed a shame not to save all
those relays too.

cheers

Jules
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