What Causes Relays to Fail

Relays can fail because of a number issues, find some information on common failure mechanisms for common types of relays from this page

What is hot switching and what impact does it have on relay life? 
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Understand what all those relay ratings really mean 
In some circumstances reliability can be improved with the aid of a our digital I/O modules 

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