Re: Ideas for really small slide switches?

On 17 Jan 2006 09:02:08 -0800, "larwe" <zwsdotcom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Roberto Waltman wrote:
>> (Paul Carpenter) wrote:
>> "larwe" wrote:
>>
>> That's very much on my wall, I was going to suggest
>> something just one step above that. Stack together
>> on an axis a few metallic plates with a profile
>> resembling a switch, and use two pcb's to create
>> a sensor pad on both sides.
>
>I'm not sure I understand this. You're proposing contact plates on one
>layer of the PCB, and this structure held into a routed hole in a
>second layer of PCB material on top of it?

+ or - (Was in a hurry) I thought the
"switch assembly" could stand alone,
above the PCB, but your "routed hole
on a second pcb" will definitely make
it look better.

I thought two small pcb strips (not in my
drawing) held vertically on both sides along
the bottom of the "switches" would provide
the contacts. Small metal brackets soldered
to an horizontal PCB (if we think of the
switches as vertical) could do the same.

Sorry if this is not clear, I'll make a
drawing when I get some time on a system
with a CAD or ray-tracing program.

( It will take a while, this week I am
undergoing training on how to use an
unnecessarily complicated 3rd party
communication library in one of our
products. The kind that takes 3000+
lines to write a basic "Hello world"
program... )

Roberto Waltman

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