contactor rating

[davesparks]

.....Okay then what do you personally think it is?

A contactor as that's what the part number is listed as by the manufacturer.

 

[Guest77]

I didn't realise a contactor could be switched using Normally open Or normally closed contacts like a relay can be switched, I thought they were coil controlled?

that said you can get clip in auxillary contacts.

 

[Deleted member 72666]

A contactor as that's what the part number is listed as by the manufacturer.

Do you have much experience with automation and control gear?

 

[andyb]

Interesting thread, my thoughts are that a contactor is either open or closed and used to switch on/off and for switching high loads.
whereas a relay is for control switching with a common and n/o n/c. So a relay can be used as a contactor but not the other way round.

So if I'm right, the picture is of a contactor as it has no common, although it has independent n/o n/c contactors it cant switch from one to the other.

 

[DPG]

Interesting thread, my thoughts are that a contactor is either open or closed and used to switch on/off and for switching high loads.
whereas a relay is for control switching with a common and n/o n/c. So a relay can be used as a contactor but not the other way round.

So if I'm right, the picture is of a contactor as it has no common, although it has independent n/o n/c contactors it cant switch from one to the other.

Relays can have single contacts or any combination of contacts though. Daz