Take a moment and chill with me and a new-in-box vintage stepper relay.
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Um mecanismo simples e eficiente, conheço pelo nome de, rele de impulso, usado bastante em automação residencial
Love the way the contact wire connectors are offset…. great idea…!
a fascination shared with sam battle for sure
Old televisions used similar relays with the ultrasonic "Clicker" remote: a stepper relay for volume and the on/off switch on the side of the cam so it was something like: off, on with low volume, on with medium volume, on with high volume, off …
my Gottlieb pinball machine, 1956, is full of these Guardian relays! most are custom stacked to have many single and double throw circuit configs / I bought a field service kit decades ago; it has three or four sizes of silver contacts and leaves and springs and insulators; stack screws and insulator tubes. /and the blueprint of the machine is drawn in the ladder-logic of the day.
reminds me of relays inside pinball machines.
Thank you for showing us interesting devices like this stepper relay and other things from your vault.
One photocopier that I maintained in the 1970s was controlled by a stepper relay. 36 steps, 10º per step. Five cams on one shaft. Solenoid was 120vdc. The assembly was ≈ 10 inches long x 4 inches square. Using a test mode, it would cycle through one revolution in ≈ 0.1 second. Bzzzt! That was the version built by CP Clare. The version built by Automatic Electric was a bit less spectacular and a bit less reliable.
Brings back memories of working on old pinball machines, some of those things emitted ozone from all of the sparking relays and contactors!
You were right; a work of art 😎👍 built to last many lifetimes.
when you see something now on amazon, ebay etc that advertises itself as 'Highest Quality' you know really it is not.
I always insist that tech could be also art
Everything that was once mechanical, made of a metal, and made in the USA is now digital/electronic, made of plastic, and made by slave labor overseas.
If you want to see a work of genius, read about and or then look at insides of an electric lock for railroad track switch.