Relec October 2018 Newsletter

The Big Relec Desert Walk

Hot on the heels, quite literally, of our big Relec bike ride, follows our latest adventure; the Big Relec Desert Walk.  Our managing director, Peter Lappin has taken up the fund raising batton, and will attempt to walk 100km across the Sahara Desert next February.

Peter’s goal is to raise £6000 for the brain tumour charity and has pledged that Relec will match whatever he raises personally.

The challenge itself goes beyond the Jebel Saghro region of southern Morocco, a forbidding landscape, punctuated by peaks, gorges and oases. It is the land of the Ait Atta tribe, who migrate here from the High Atlas Mountains in winter.

The route takes in the Maider El Kbir plateau and passing rose dunes, a challenging climb up Jebel Lamrakeb and heads up the dry Rhris River towards an oasis of tamarisk trees. The walk finishes along the Tikertouachene River, before reaching their final destination Ouarzazate after 7 days of searing heat.

If you would like to support Peter, or just follow his training diary, please check out our Big Relec Desert Walk blog.

RCM Series railway converters now available with pluggable connectors

Relec Electronics are pleased to announce that our colleagues at Melcher have now released the pluggable connector versions of their flagship railway converters, the RCM series.

The RCM series has been developed by the same Swiss team that designed the now ubiquitous M, S, K, Q and P series products used extensively across Europe’s railways for applications as diverse as safety interlocks, train radios, lighting and even soap dispensers.

The Melcher team has always been proud of the level of detail and design verification which goes into their products. Would you expect any less from a Swiss company? All Melcher products are designed to the following strict criteria:

• Compliance to EN50121-3-2:2016 and EN50155:2017 as standard
• Severe derating down to component levels
• Over stressing on input to output isolation tests
• HALT (highly accelerated life testing) as standard
• All circuits dip-varnished for high mechanical durability and humidity withstand
• Self-cooling, no derating over the specified temperature range.

Pluggable connectors are especially suitable for railway applications, providing additional retention capacity for shock and vibration-proof operation, ideal for many rolling stock applications such as cab radios, HVAC systems, train control, passenger information systems, washroom systems and illumination applications.

As well as through hole devices we have surface mount devices available.  Please give our technical team a call as we would love to get some samples in front of you.

As always, thanks again for reading and see you next month

John Stone

Sales Director