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Difference between Safety Relay and General Relay

FAQ No. FAQ02435

Question

What is the difference between the Safety Relay and the General Relay?

Answer

	Safety Relay with forcibly guided contacts	General Relay
Forcibly guide contact	have	Not have
Detect the contact welding	Detect the opposite contact. e.g. A contact occurred the weld, detect the b contact condition.	Not able
Contact welding, miss contact	No difference. Safety relay is able to design the safety circuit by using the forcibly guide contact when the trouble happened.
Basic operation, open/close or isolation	No difference
C contact	Not available	available
Applicable Models	G7SA Series G7S Series	MY Series LY Series and others

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