Talk:Dry contact

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This page should have more information added to it, rather than be deleted.

[edit] Is this really what "dry contact" means?

I've yet to find any reference that defines "dry contact" this way.

Oli Filth 21:09, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Right. [1] says it pretty clearly. A dry contact is one which, when it makes and breaks, has no current. Reed relay, which I mostly wrote, hints at it in the section about ferreed matrix crosspoints. Now I'll take a look and probably replace most the text in this article. Jim.henderson 02:47, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

The reference is fair enough, but as is often the case, the term gets used in more than one way, ie with more than one meaning. Its more common to see dry as meaning not wet, ie contacts that are not mercury wetted.

Even more common is to see the word used to mean a bad soldered joint. Tabby (talk) 03:26, 30 March 2008 (UTC)