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Opinions on microswitches and soldering please
nakeworks:
I took the advice of PL1 and ordered a bunch of different switches and will test them out. Here is what I ordered:
Paradise Arcade:
-Cherry pushbutton MS
-20 gram MS
-50 gram MS
-125 gram MS
-Rollie Leaf swithc
Groovy Game Gear:
-groovy standard soft-touch
-micro leaf
-versa-micro user adjustable
I'll let you know which ones I settle on. Thanks for all the help guys :notworthy:
Mysterioii:
--- Quote from: brad808 on June 29, 2012, 04:56:09 pm ---Some people actually use the correct size quick connects? Hmm must just be all the dumb people around here that do this :D
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I know I'm gonna get ripped but I actually wired my whole CP (8 years ago) using the wrong sized disconnects. They were what I had on hand and I wanted to wire it up that night. I found that I could wedge them on there in such a way that I was satisfied that they weren't going anywhere but I could still take them off if I needed to.
It was a judgement call sort of thing, I was well aware of what I was doing, and if I wasn't satisfied with the connection I wouldn't have gone any further. BTW I've got my MENG and two PE licenses and at the time had about 10 years or so under my belt doing EE for Naval systems as a civilian so no way would I have done that for a customer or work project, I know the importance of going by the specs in those situations, but when it's for personal consumption sometimes you gotta fly by the seat of your pants. I've done lots of things around the house that aren't exactly "code" but I still sleep well at night... ;D
Nephasth:
--- Quote from: Mysterioii on July 02, 2012, 09:46:32 am ---I know the importance of going by the specs in those situations, but when it's for personal consumption sometimes you gotta fly by the seat of your pants. I've done lots of things around the house that aren't exactly "code" but I still sleep well at night... ;D
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Damn. I have a pretty high standard for the work I do for other people, but when it comes to the work I do for myself, I go above and beyond that standard...
Mysterioii:
--- Quote from: Nephasth on July 02, 2012, 10:38:50 am ---
--- Quote from: Mysterioii on July 02, 2012, 09:46:32 am ---I know the importance of going by the specs in those situations, but when it's for personal consumption sometimes you gotta fly by the seat of your pants. I've done lots of things around the house that aren't exactly "code" but I still sleep well at night... ;D
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Damn. I have a pretty high standard for the work I do for other people, but when it comes to the work I do for myself, I go above and beyond that standard...
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Hey now let's not read this wrong, I have a VERY high standard for the work that I do for myself. And that's why I had to be satisfied that those connections weren't coming loose. I am perfectly satisfied, and in 8 years have had no issues at all with them. Now, when I rebuild it (hopefully soon) I will have the correct ones on hand to begin with. To give a little more backstory, I got my cabinet kit AND a poker table kit from mameroom.com about a week before we were having a huge Christmas party at my house, and I wanted to have both of them assembled before the party (while taking care of all the other crap too). Some concessions had to be made, but not to a level I was dissatisfied with. I was satisfied. I feel that I have enough training and experience to know when something is electrically sound and when it is not. Remember, I'm the guy who shrinkwraps everything and hooks all my tinned wires before soldering them together to improve the mechanical connection whenever possible. :lol
I'll give another example.... in my state, it is electrical code that any wire junctions inside a wall cavity have to be capped by a removable outlet cover. In my current home, the previous homeowner thought it would be a great idea to have a power outlet 6 feet off the ground right in the center of the wall behind where his entertainment center was. Well, my entertainment center was not the same as his, and if I left that outlet or capped it with a cover it would have been right in the middle of everyone's eye line. I pulled the wires from the outlet, covered each wire with it's own wire nut, electrical taped the hell out of each one, rolled it up, tucked it all in the wall and patched the hole completely. It's invisible. It's not remotely up to code, and I'm perfectly happy. Those things are not coming loose and I sleep well at night, without having to look at an outlet cover floating in the middle of the wall.
Previous owners at my old house were an old couple who felt the need for a corded phone in the main bathroom. I didn't share that need, so that one got removed and patched over too. Again, not code in my neck of the woods. Will never be a problem.
BadMouth:
TWIST AND TAPE BABY!!! :laugh:
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