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You are correct on the 1000 board. The common relay terminal connecting to the output, is in parallel from the top view. That can only mean the NO and NC connections are also paralleled on the bottom of the board. That indicates they knew there was a weak link with this relay.

Unfortunately this does not double capacity of a small relay that is being hot switched. This only works when the relay is not hot switched because the failure here is related to the arcing that occurs during hot switching which, fuses the contacts together as they pit from the arcing. Do not expect both sets of contacts to be in perfect alignment or to wear evenly.

Eventually one side will switch before the other and arc together at the same power level one would. Proof of this is that when they fail, testing or dissecting the relay always shows one set of contacts fused together and not both.

<blockquote data-quote="Shockwave" data-source="post: 695369" data-attributes="member: 10882">You are correct on the 1000 board. The common relay terminal connecting to the output, is in parallel from the top view. That can only mean the NO and NC connections are also paralleled on the bottom of the board. That indicates they knew there was a weak link with this relay.Unfortunately this does not double capacity of a small relay that is being hot switched. This only works when the relay is not hot switched because the failure here is related to the arcing that occurs during hot switching which, fuses the contacts together as they pit from the arcing. Do not expect both sets of contacts to be in perfect alignment or to wear evenly.Eventually one side will switch before the other and arc together at the same power level one would. Proof of this is that when they fail, testing or dissecting the relay always shows one set of contacts fused together and not both.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shockwave, post: 695369, member: 10882"] You are correct on the 1000 board. The common relay terminal connecting to the output, is in parallel from the top view. That can only mean the NO and NC connections are also paralleled on the bottom of the board. That indicates they knew there was a weak link with this relay. Unfortunately this does not double capacity of a small relay that is being hot switched. This only works when the relay is not hot switched because the failure here is related to the arcing that occurs during hot switching which, fuses the contacts together as they pit from the arcing. Do not expect both sets of contacts to be in perfect alignment or to wear evenly. Eventually one side will switch before the other and arc together at the same power level one would. Proof of this is that when they fail, testing or dissecting the relay always shows one set of contacts fused together and not both. [/QUOTE]

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