My surface mount switches have arrived.

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Doggy Styles replied

16 February 2010, 23:32
Originally posted by zeitghost

A slight bijou problemette has appeared re the foot print.

It's just great & spaced ideally.

Until you put the pretty coloured buttons on the switches.

I just knew it was going far too well.

How about filing down the sides of the buttons?

Or will that mean you can't fit all of "Yobba Ray" on them?
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chef replied

16 February 2010, 16:32
Originally posted by zeitghost

A slight bijou problemette has appeared re the foot print.

It's just great & spaced ideally.

Until you put the pretty coloured buttons on the switches.

I just knew it was going far too well.

so you'll not be leaving this rock just yet then?
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Doggy Styles replied

16 February 2010, 14:28
Originally posted by zeitghost

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/s...duct&R=0512960

Ah yes, that gives them the status they deserve.

As an aside, when I was a mere apprentice learning all this stuff, I spent most of my first year at college and the firm's training centre not really grasping what transistors were for. We were being taught the physics principles first - NP junctions, leakage currents, amplification, rise times, decaying oscillations, all that stuff.

It wasn't until some wizened engineer on my first laboratory placement said "Transistors? They're just switches" that the penny dropped.
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Doggy Styles replied

16 February 2010, 10:57
Originally posted by zeitghost

http://www.rapidonline.com/Electroni...ches/71590/kw/

HTH.

I discovered some of the leaded ones in the stores last week.

My predeceased predecessor must have ordered a shedload in.

Perhaps he was building his own keyboard to save money.

Anyway, thanks. Are you going to use these for your "Launch Missile" buttons?
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Paddy replied

15 February 2010, 19:43
Originally posted by xoggoth View Post

How does anyone do electronics anymore? Tried mending a Psion 3 back in about 1997 and failed due to lack of dexterity. One needs x50 vision, a 0.1mm soldering iron and manual precision to match.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Toas...-toaster-oven/
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xoggoth replied

15 February 2010, 18:46
How does anyone do electronics anymore? Tried mending a Psion 3 back in about 1997 and failed due to lack of dexterity. One needs x50 vision, a 0.1mm soldering iron and manual precision to match.
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Paddy replied

15 February 2010, 17:39
Originally posted by zeitghost View Post

I ordered them on the 23rd of November last.

Switch
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Doggy Styles replied

15 February 2010, 16:56
I'm intrigued now. What are these switches like? Manual switches or what? How many feet and how big a gap between them?
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Doggy Styles replied

15 February 2010, 14:12
Are we talking PCB here zeity, or thick/thin flim?
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Spacecadet replied

15 February 2010, 11:51
Originally posted by zeitghost

Even more amazing, they fit the footprint I created for them.

Would that be the 3 toed footprint?
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AtW replied

15 February 2010, 10:49
Originally posted by zeitghost

Many fewer dry joints with that.

gins
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Doggy Styles replied

15 February 2010, 10:42
Let's hope you don't have any dry joints. Despite being a lizard.
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Moscow Mule replied

15 February 2010, 10:38
Happy days...
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zeitghost started a topic My surface mount switches have arrived.

15 February 2010, 10:37
My surface mount switches have arrived.

I ordered them on the 23rd of November last.

Even more amazing, they fit the footprint I created for them.

Possibly.

Now I've got to write the frigging software.

Every cloud & all that.

Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post

I'm intrigued now. What are these switches like? Manual switches or what? How many feet and how big a gap between them?

http://www.rapidonline.com/Electroni...ches/71590/kw/

HTH.

I discovered some of the leaded ones in the stores last week.

My predeceased predecessor must have ordered a shedload in.

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