Contact closure expansion card 7 connections configured as either inputs or outputs. (Only 4 connections are available on the 2740 series.)
The contact closure card provides volt-free (or dry) contacts. This means that we can read a dry contact as a status bit. Usually this involves closing a contact (relay or contact output) that is nothing more that a stand-alone set of contacts with no voltage, current, or anything else impressed across the contact set.