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Re: [motm] key contacts

2008-04-20 by Kenneth Elhardt

Moe writes:
>>What I would really like to try are those bubble contact strips used
in lots of modern actions. Help me source these please! Or any other
key contact ideas you have.<<

Well the Polyfusion modular synth keyboard and my Wersi bass pedals both use
reed switches.  They're enclosed in a glass tube so they never corrode or
get dirty.  All you do is pass a magnet infront of them and the contact
closes.  I've seen them for sale at Mouser's, and probably elsewhere.

-Elhardt

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