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| Hoagie_one:
I see Momentary Contact Pushbuttons mentioned all the time and im ignorant about what they are. Thanks |
| HeadRusch:
Its just a button...usually without a microswitch. Two prongs...you press the button, you complete the circuit. I ordered a bunch from Radio Shack to use as mame function buttons on my CP...you know, F2 for adjusting volume, another for frameskip, etc.... They dont have microswitches, so you just wire one prong to ground..and the other prong to your live wire.......either way is fine..... |
| Hoagie_one:
why use these in place of a normal button w/ microswitch? |
| Les:
--- Quote from: Hoagie_one on June 12, 2003, 09:39:47 am ---why use these in place of a normal button w/ microswitch? --- End quote --- Regular arcade pushbuttons are momentary contact buttons, not just the ones you buy a Radio Shack. They do the exact same thing he described above when wired as NO (normaly open). You could use those as your F2 and other function buttons just as well without all the hassel of going to some other format of button. |
| HeadRusch:
Uh, you'd never use a Momentary Contact switch as a "playing button" for lots of reasons, not the least of which is that they 'feel" terrible...they're usually much stiffer than a regular arcade button....but I didn't wante to "waste" good arcade buttons for functions like F2 in mame, or TAB or ESC......so I bought these instead.....I use a couple on the side of my control panel......they're small, out of the way, and functional. Why use them instead of regular arcade pushbuttons? They are often cheaper, they are available in sizes as small as a pencil eraser, and and they take up alot less space if you get the small ones. |
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