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Zobeid:
Instead of stretching the springs, I found I could fold up a small cardboard spacer in the top of the button where the spring seats.  It reduces the space available for the spring and keeps it slightly more compressed.

Then I measured the force required to activate the buttons using an improvised gravimetric technique -- I stacked tokens on the buttons until they moved.  The results:

standard button with "zippy" microswitch:  16 tokens
standard button with micro-leaf switch:  6 tokens
button with cardboard spacer and micro-leaf switch:  12 tokens

That result is just about perfect for me.

I think this should work better than stretching the springs because it's something you can do more consistently to a set of buttons, it's less potentially harmful to the spring, and it's reversible.

RandyT:

--- Quote from: Zobeid on March 24, 2008, 08:31:51 pm ---I think this should work better than stretching the springs because it's something you can do more consistently to a set of buttons, it's less potentially harmful to the spring, and it's reversible.

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Unless you plan on lighting the buttons ;)


RandyT

Zobeid:

--- Quote from: RandyT on March 27, 2008, 10:42:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zobeid on March 24, 2008, 08:31:51 pm ---I think this should work better than stretching the springs because it's something you can do more consistently to a set of buttons, it's less potentially harmful to the spring, and it's reversible.

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Unless you plan on lighting the buttons ;)

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How is that a problem?  I don't imagine the cardboard casting much more shadow than the spring itself did.

I suppose the most ideal answer would be a spacer made of some transparent material.  Plastic tubing?

patrickl:
Or get a microswitch needing a slightly higher actuation force (or slightly lower compared to your Zippy switches)

Zobeid:

--- Quote from: patrickl on March 28, 2008, 03:43:33 am ---Or get a microswitch needing a slightly higher actuation force (or slightly lower compared to your Zippy switches)

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The whole point of the exercise was to get the micro-leaf switches adjusted to my liking.  So in that respect using different switches isn't an option.

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