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Offline chyros

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Teardown - Micro Switch microswitch switches
« on: Thu, 25 October 2018, 10:25:35 »
Got a weird one today, hope you enjoy the video!

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Re: Teardown - Micro Switch microswitch switches
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 25 October 2018, 11:40:44 »
You might be interested in this micro-switch demo. Jump ahead to 13 minutes - or watch the whole thing - it's fascinating.
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Re: Teardown - Micro Switch microswitch switches
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 25 October 2018, 14:23:14 »
Giant microswitch WANT
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Re: Teardown - Micro Switch microswitch switches
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 26 October 2018, 00:08:47 »
Quote from: chyros on Thu, 25 October 2018, 14:23:14
Giant microswitch

So.. a gigaswitch?
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Re: Teardown - Micro Switch microswitch switches
« Reply #4 on: Fri, 26 October 2018, 06:21:40 »
What an overcomplicated mess.

Anyhow, I did some digging, and it looks like an early BZ series switch such as these:
https://sensing.honeywell.com/switches/premium-large-basic-switches/BZ-series
Newer ones are rated for around 20m presses, and just like the Omron D2f in your mouse, these have a terrible low maximum force before the leaf spring starts to deform causing false triggering. A keyboard full of these? No thanks.

As for the giant switch, find someone with a 3d printer, at that scale a common home printer can easily make one, size being the only real problem.
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