7. Relays Advantages & Disadvantages Moving parts (springs) limit life expectancy from 1 – 3 million cycles 4. Hold up well in extremely warm temperatures Short contact life when use for rapid switching application. 3. Low initial cost Contact bounce 2. Normally has multipole, multithrow, contact arrangement. Contact wear, thus has limitation 1. Relay operation can be seen: working or not, this simplified the troubleshooting Disadvantages Advantages