>
> What are you switching? How many positions do you really _need_? Have
> you
> noticed that rotary switches are in large part going away, or at least
> they
> have been since the fifties? There's a reason for that. Feel free to
> take
> this over to Electronics101 if we get too far off the topic for in here.
>
I need 2∗10 positions, and can only get 2∗6 or 1∗12.
For selecting cell count on a battery charger (no current at all).
Almost all handheld meters i've ever seen use rotary switches, and all i
took
apart had "custom" printed contacts. Oh, yes, there was one rotten piece
of bad engineering
that had four buttons instead. The damn thing had dozens of design flaws,
like blowing up
each time you pulled the current plug....
I could try to pull some mechanical stunt and stack 2 1∗12 switches.
I don't know if that would be possibe with the switches i can get.
But then, one switch for 2.50eur is not exactly cheap, not speaking of 2...
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