Sequential Aspects of Relay Circuits

THE BASIS of relay circuit action is that a set of n of the 2-position devices can assume 2n distinct combinational patterns. Thus a particular input condition can produce a particular relay pattern which, by utilizing the contact configurations on the relays, generates a corresponding output condition. A new input condition develops another output condition, and so on.

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[2]  G. R. Frost Counting with Relays , 1949, Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.

[3]  William Keister Logic of relay circuits , 1949, Electrical Engineering.