[sdiy] switch question

[harry bissell]

Switches look like M-lec iirc
Maybe others as well...

H^) harry

Mike wrote:
>>> here are 2 pics:
>>>
>>> http://www.rude66.org/pics/switchback.jpg
>>> http://www.rude66.org/pics/switchfront.jpg
>>>
>>> the switch has only 2 positions, you push the middle part in to switch
>>>       
> it
>   
>>> on..
>>>       
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> Hi there - I've just joined, so might as well try to be useful: I built a
> lot of analogue gear in the 70's and eighties, for various musician and
> bands, and now fee the urge to return to the fray. I'm an electronics
> engineer based in Lancashire.
>
> These look rather like a variant of the switches used in a lot of PC's -
> there will be a switch body that snap fits into the cap/actuator.
> Trying a bit of ASCII art, the ones I'm thinking of wire like this:
>
> ---o     o---  NO
>      ____             Contact set 1
> ---o     o---  NC
>
> ---o     o---  NO
>      ____             Contact set 2
> ---o     o---  NC
>
>
> What you have effectively is a DPDT, but with no common terminal - you have
> to link them yourself
>
> I'm blessed (or sometimes cursed) with a mnemonic memory, I recognise the
> caps but can't remember from where at the moment.
>
> Best wishes
>
> ||\/||ike
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