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Title: Any one know what the fastest response time of the various Microswitches avail ?
Post by: mrclean on March 09, 2018, 09:34:56 pm: I've been testing various games & noticed a slight lag in response time ever so slightly from one micro-switch to the other. Does anyone happen to know which micro-switches are the fastest response times? I found D44 cherry's to be pretty good but was curious if anyone else knows specifically which micros have a faster response time.
Title: Re: Any one know what the fastest response time of the various Microswitches avail ?
Post by: paigeoliver on March 09, 2018, 11:00:39 pm: I am pretty sure every microswitch out there is faster than the polling rate of every arcade game out there. At best the controls are being read once every 1/60th of a second, pretty sure every microswitch closes faster than that.

Are you testing with an emulator, are you using an LCD monitor?
Title: Re: Any one know what the fastest response time of the various Microswitches avail ?
Post by: AndyWarne on March 10, 2018, 05:25:49 am: If you are seeing a noticeable lag after pressing the switch and its not present with other switches (ie its not caused by the application which as paigeoliver mentions, would have some lag), then the switch is probably due for replacement as the contacts may be tarnished.

A switch with dirty contacts can exhibit a delay as the contact might not be fully closed until a few "bounces" have happened on the contacts.

Switches with gold-plated contacts generally do not suffer from this. The best types of switches for gaming are those designed for use with low voltages and currents where the contacts would be made of a material most resistant to tarnishing. I would not agree that Cherry D44 are particularly good, these have 10 amp-rated silver plated contacts which tarnish easily.
Title: Re: Any one know what the fastest response time of the various Microswitches avail ?
Post by: shaolindrunkard on March 10, 2018, 09:47:53 am: Quote from: mrclean on March 09, 2018, 09:34:56 pm
I've been testing various games & noticed a slight lag in response time ever so slightly from one micro-switch to the other. Does anyone happen to know which micro-switches are the fastest response times? I found D44 cherry's to be pretty good but was curious if anyone else knows specifically which micros have a faster response time.

Your overthinking this.
Title: Re: Any one know what the fastest response time of the various Microswitches avail ?
Post by: AndyWarne on March 10, 2018, 01:46:47 pm: Quote from: shaolindrunkard on March 10, 2018, 09:47:53 am
Quote from: mrclean on March 09, 2018, 09:34:56 pm
I've been testing various games & noticed a slight lag in response time ever so slightly from one micro-switch to the other. Does anyone happen to know which micro-switches are the fastest response times? I found D44 cherry's to be pretty good but was curious if anyone else knows specifically which micros have a faster response time.

Your overthinking this.

I agree the OP is not really on the right track. He has evidently come across faulty switches rather than ones with different response times to others.
Title: Re: Any one know what the fastest response time of the various Microswitches avail ?
Post by: aldub516 on March 15, 2018, 03:51:53 pm: I cant imagine any properly functioning microswitch having a humanly noticeable lag... or humanly noticeable difference between different switches
Title: Re: Any one know what the fastest response time of the various Microswitches avail ?
Post by: jennifer on March 15, 2018, 04:42:19 pm: A scope would tell the story.... Personally Jennifer still prefers analog, because of that refresh rate P/Oliver speaks of (also that old dog tricks thing), and is all OCD with 10hz rubidium calibration practices. Bla,Bla,Bla.... But thing is its also quite a bit cheaper too, and is a nice addition to any workbench, that deals with trigger points like this, and prototyping.