"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
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Often times..they (almost any equipment maker) doesnt use decent
switches. They save a buck or 2..but the equipment dies faster.

Gunner

Experience leads me to suspect that mechanical (and sometimes
electrical) engineers don't learn how to specify electro-mechanical
components.
http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_4/chpt_4/2.html

One -very- capable mechanical engineer I worked for didn't know that
Pemnuts existed. He could design and analyze a complex engine or
transmission casting but had never worked with sheet metal.

jsw