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Default Micro switch, switch size.

On 13/03/2019 09:54, Roger Hayter wrote:
I'd still try a new microswitch first. Their operating point does move
a lot as the contacts wear.


No. it doesn't.

If you look at how they work, it is a matter of levers within the thing
whose actions are more about where the button sits on the arm and the
arm length than where the contact is

https://www.components.omron.com/web...tch/basic02-01

what wears, is not the contact, but the actual BUTTON.



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