Where can I get DPDT footswitches?

[Rob]

Aranakin at aol.com wrote:
> 
> please, I can't find anywhere that has a phone number that sells heavy duty
> DPDT footswitches.
> I'm quite amazed at this, being that i would think that electronic stores that
> have everything thing else in the world, don't have this....
> as well as jameco and the likes...
> gees...
> please halp me out if you can..
> anthony

look at your average guitar pedal: it has a footswitch (SPST) that
triggers a flip-flop (well, not really a flip-flop but a discrete
transistor based flip-flop) this flip-flop feeds a couple of different
circuits that turn on or off the various elements of the pedal..
I would say you would be better off with the spst (cheaper) and using a
d-flop or something rigged up with the QNOT fed back into D, and the
switch switching CLK.. This would turn on Q with one hit of the pedal,
then the next hit will turn Q off, then next hit turn on Q, etc.. 

Rob (who has worked on more stupid gee-tar pedals than he wants to
admit)