Posts Tagged ‘electrical contact design’
Materials and Design for Electrical Contact Longevity
Proper design and selection of materials can have a big impact on the longevity of your electrical contacts. Designing long-life contacts involves a number of important considerations and trade-offs, as well as iterative testing and sampling, to achieve an optimal performance for your electrical contacts. Keep these factors in mind when performance and reliability are…
Read MoreDon’t Leave Electrical Contact Selection to Chance
When it comes to electrical contact selection for your switches, are you content to roll the dice? If so, you may be gambling with the reliability of your customers’ equipment. No one can afford to do that. There are many factors you need to consider when sourcing electrical contacts for switches. Many of them require…
Read MoreThe Most Common Failure Scenarios for Electrical Contacts
Often, when a product or component fails, it’s because it wasn’t adequately designed for the environment or the application in which it was used. Think of the O-rings on the boosters of the Challenger Space Shuttle, which were never designed to survive a launch in cold weather. Or the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, which…
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