Clacton-on-Sea  UK,  July  2011  – Pickering Electronics is expanding its range of reed relay products with the introduction of a new two pole Single-in-Line (SIL) 117 series relay.

The 117 series occupies the smallest board area in the Pickering Electronics reed relay range – just 0.15 inches x 0.4 inches for the two pole version. It is also available in a single pole reed relay occupying only 0.15 x 0.27 inches, just 38% and 26% respectively of the board area compared to the industry standard relays SIL relays of 0.2 x 0.8 inches. All models are rated at 100V and can a carry up to 0.5A signal current and switch 3W of signal power.

The 117 series reed relays are constructed using Pickering Electronics SoftCentre™ technology with an integral magnetic screen ensuring that the resulting relays exhibit excellent reliability and no magnetic interaction when closely packed together.

Using the 117 series reed relays users can minimize the footprint occupied by relays on dense product designs without compromising reliability or relay performance. Versions are also available supporting 3V coil drives for systems working at low supply voltages.

More information is available on our web site www.pickeringrelay.com

About Pickering Electronics

Pickering Electronics was formed in 1968 to design and manufacture high quality reed relays, intended principally for use in instrumentation and automatic test equipment.

Pickering Electronics offer an extensive range of high quality instrumentation grade reed relays designed for applications requiring the highest levels of performance and reliability.Through the experience of supporting the most demanding manufacturers of large ATE systems with high relay counts Pickering has refined its design, assembly and quality control methods to optimise its product range to this most challenging market. 

Pickering reed relays are available either direct form the UK factory or from a network of local sales agents throughout Europe, North America and Asia.