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FIIG:  A053A0

Entry Date:  Apr-01-1974

Concept:  

Status:  A

Applicability:  M

Type:  0

Definition:  A switch in which a mercury pool is used to bridge fixed contacts when their inclosing sealed capsule is tilted. Do not use if switch has an actuator, such as lever, push button, toggle, and the like. See SWITCH (as modified). For items in which a contact may be moved into a mercury pool by a magnetic field, see SWITCH, REED.

Basic INC:  70248

Basic Name:  SWITCH

Description:  1. A device which completes, interrupts, or changes the connections in one or more electrical circuit(s) by electrical, electronic, manual or mechanical actuation, or as a result of changes in ambient temperature. It includes items consisting of individually separable switches which are physically interlocked (e.g., one button returns when the other is pushed), which have a common actuator, or are electrically connected. Excludes: items which perform the same function by self-produced thermal action, such as relays, circuit breakers, fuses, or motor starters.