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From: David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject: Re: latching relays
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:47:21 GMT
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          Mike Scott <usenet.16@scottsonline.org.uk.invalid> wrote:

> Hi all. I think a latching relay is the way to go for a pico-based job I 
> have in mind. However the prevalent ones all seem to be controlled by a 
> pulse on a single input wire which flips and flops the state.
> 
> No doubt they reset to a known-state at power-up.

It has always been my understanding that they retain their current state
indefinitely, until the next pulse.  So there is no such thing as a
reset state.

David