To all who replied to my request - thanks for the advice...

My problem indeed ended up being in-rush current.  I am in the process of
replacing the reed relays with either transistors or a ULN2803A Darlington.
Thanks to all...

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Wootton [SMTP:woottong@isdugp.bham.ac.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 1998 4:06 AM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: [OT] Reed Relay problem for 16C84 based truck light bar
> scroller
>
> I had the same problem with just a 150mA inductive load. As Mike Harrison
> says, reed relays are not really suitable for load switching. In my case
> I used a transistor instead and have had no problems since.
>
> Geoff.