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patrickl:

--- Quote from: RandyT on September 29, 2007, 08:04:50 am ---
--- Quote from: patrickl on September 29, 2007, 07:29:31 am ---Yes that's exactly my point. Nothing "leaf" about either. Yet, one of us actually calls it a "leaf" switch  ::)

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--- Quote from: Dictionary (get one) ---a. A very thin sheet of material, especially metal.

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Pfft sure. This metal part on a switch is called a lever. You know perfectly well why instead you choose to call it a "leaf". Especially in the arcade scene here were leaf has a very different connotation from microswitch this an obvious attempt to mislead people.


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--- Quote ---Adding the lever/leaf only increases the "throw" of the switch (which is exactly what you don't want) and I doubt it does anything with the clicking sound. It does reduce the pressure required for activating the switch, but that's it. So that's only one out of three of the leaf advantages over microswitch.

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Nope.  Smaller switch, smaller throw. 

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Pfft again. Smaller than what? The real leaf switches will have practically no activation distance. A microswitch without a lever has a smaller activation distance than one with a lever.


--- Quote ---Some of you "seen and done everything" types might get a real eye-opener from dissecting one of these switches and seeing just how "leaf-like" they are inside.
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It's still a microswitch with a lever and not a leaf switch. It has a very slight advantage (lighter activation) and a slight disadvantage (longer activation distance) over a regular microswitch.
patrickl:

--- Quote from: vitaflo on September 29, 2007, 04:47:58 pm ---And my god at all the cry babies in this thread.  Make something better or STFU.

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There is something better already and it's called a leaf switch.
Kremmit:

--- Quote from: patrickl on September 29, 2007, 04:51:42 pm ---Pfft sure. This metal part on a switch is called a lever. You know perfectly well why instead you choose to call it a "leaf". Especially in the arcade scene here were leaf has a very different connotation from microswitch this an obvious attempt to mislead people.

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What kind of doofus could possibly have been misled by that, when there's a PICTURE RIGHT THERE showing the microswitch.  Micro-Leaf.  Micro, because it's a Microswitch.  Leaf, because it tries to emulate some of the characteristics of a leafswitch.  How can people be having trouble with that?  Is there really anybody here that's so dumb then can't tell what's for sale, and what it's supposed to do?  Anybody?  Come on, one of you guys admit you were totally unable to tell what was for sale.  Because if nobody was fooled, than this whole conversation is pretty dumb.

It's not an attempt to mis-lead.  Does anybody really picture Randy sitting at his desk, thinking:  "Now, what can I call this thing that'll fool my customers into buying it, only to disappoint them when they receive it and find out it's not what they though they were buying?  Because that's how I stay in business, disappointing my customers.  Been doing it for years." 

It's an attempt give the product a better name than "Quiet Low Pressure Sub-Miniature Micro-Switch with Lever Actuator and Lighting-Friendly Pushbutton Mounting Bracket".  When you go to the store, do you ask the clerk:  Where are the Flying Plastic Discs?", or:  "Where are the Frisbees?"
Santoro:
Well, I was dumb enough to think it was a 'mini' leaf switch at first glance, so I think the name is slightly ambiguous.    But Randy really can call it whatever the heck he wants.  I ordered some anyway because I want quiet swithes.

I am stupefied at the big deal being made about this.  :dunno
saint:
We're arcade loving geeks - most of us have nothing better to do on weekend nights :)

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