Reliance Controls Corporation is an electrical products company based in Racine, Wisconsin, founded as Reliance Automatic Lighting Company in 1909 with the invention of the heavy-duty commercial time switch.[1][2][3] The company's products include heavy duty time clocks and controls, transfer switches and transfer panels for portable generators and inverters, and generator accessories. Reliance also sells heavy duty outdoor generator power cords, outdoor remote power inlet boxes, home monitoring systems, and NEMA-style plugs and connectors.
- ^ Journal Times (Racine, Wisconsin) October 4, 2009 front page “Money” section story including color photographs of the then 100-year-old company
- ^ "About Us - Reliance Controls Corporation".
- ^ Electrical Review and Western Electrician, Volume 59 Electrical Review Publishing Company, 1911