I have once again picked up a piece of debris at the junk store and made a video about it.

This is a story I invented because I couldn't find any hard answers. I expect to get corrected on my assumptions, but I didn't know how else to start a conversation about it.

I have already received comments confirming that I got most of this correct, to my great satisfaction. There is ONE inaccuracy I've been made aware of, it's significant, and I can't believe I didn't think of it myself: The plunger doesn't reset when you trigger the coil, or ever. These are one-time-use devices.

Once you bypass a relay, there's no telling what damage it will incur as a result of overcurrent, etc. The contacts could get fused together permanently, or a brief internal fire could coat everything in soot, there's no telling.

Once a ship makes it back to port, all such overridden devices get replaced with new ones. That may be why this one was thrown away - or it might just be that someone pushed the plunger down while it was in storage, and their CO walked in, slapped his forehead, and told the greenhorn to throw it out before someone mistook it for a new unit.

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