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Happ Pushbuttons... anything better out there...?
Bender:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on April 02, 2008, 09:32:40 pm ---While leaf travel may be near 1/4" ... you can make it actuate in the 1st mm of travel (or less).
You dont have to push down 3/4ths travel like in micros.
*** Ok I decided to actually Measure:
A Happs horizontal button had 1/2 mm play (space) between the button actuator and the mircoswitch actuator.
And, pressing the button down, it actuated the switch at 2mm.
That is:
1/2 mm play (space)
1 & 1/2 mm microswitch activation
(and I think there was another 1/2 to 1 full mm of travel after activation. I forgot)
I didnt have an open leaf in access... but, I felt underneath the Asteroid Deluxe to feel the buttons
top leaf... at the same time feeling the top of the button with the other hand.
As soon as I pressed the button a hair - the leaf was matching the action. There was no 'play' at all
as the button was sitting directly on the leaf spring.
The leaf's themselves can be bent to be touching at all times. This means that you can easily adjust it
to 1mm distance to total activation quite easily.
Of course, over time, you will need to re-adjust them. That is one of the problems of leafs.
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Hey Xiaou2,
Great point!
the micro activates after the majority of travel
and the leafs travel the majority after they activate
that is a really good way to describe one of the differences
I hadn't thought about it that way, but very true!
oh yeah, HEALTHY debate IS good!
Thanks,
Bender