X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 00:06:20 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from mta9.adelphia.net ([68.168.78.199] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.8) with ESMTP id 971064 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sun, 05 Feb 2006 15:30:59 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=68.168.78.199; envelope-from=dfs155@adelphia.net Received: from f3g6s4 ([70.36.5.58]) by mta9.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with SMTP id <20060205203008.SNPG14388.mta9.adelphia.net@f3g6s4> for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 15:30:08 -0500 X-Original-Message-ID: <003501c62a92$deae6240$0201a8c0@f3g6s4> From: "Dan Schaefer" X-Original-To: "Lancair list" Subject: Bosch Relays X-Original-Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 12:29:30 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Gerard, the schematics you refer to are merely the proof that there really is more than one way to skin a cat. They both depict essentially the same circuit, except the first shows diodes as arc suppressors across the relay coils and motor windings, and the second has diodes AND Metal Oxide Varistors (MOV's). The location of components on a schematic drawing has no meaning as long as they are shown connected the same way. Granted, there are a few parts shown on the first schematic that aren't on the second, but they aren't germane to the discussion and understood to be there. As an aside, the second schematic shows a bit of "belt and suspenders" approach (unless a diode fails, the MOV doesn't do a thing, and vice versa) but the components are cheap - and what price redundancy? Dan Schaefer