SAMs Arrive!

Due to COVID pandemic delays, the 10 replacement SAMs that were ordered back in November of 2020 finally arrived! They have been installed in the console to replace ones with burnt out coils. These are what the multi-colored stop tabs get mounted to. The coils with black foil around them are the magnets that move the switches up and down (on and off). The actual switch that tells the Uniflex relay that the stop is on or off is located towards the bottom of the board as the below image is oriented. It is called a reed switch and consists of two tiny pieces of metal that are moved together or apart based on magnetic fields produced by the magnets that are just above the switch.