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brandon:
how about using those little magnet reed switch..or I think thats what they are called.. Its a little glass tube that sort of looks like a tiny light bulb.. I think they use them for security alarm sensors.. they are totally passive as far I know and might work pretty well..  Actually.. now that I think about it I used to have a Sega Super Master Golf cab and it used a little swinging golf club controller that had those sensors in it.. hmm...

NoOne=NBA=:
The Colecovision Super Controllers used them too, but they were terrible.
They had a trackwheel on them for running the baseball guys around that had a couple magnets on it, and alternately closed the switches on each side of it.
I've had to fix them on BOTH my controllers.

They may have been a bad batch though, so off-the-shelf ones may be more durable.

RayB:

--- Quote from: NoOne=NBA= on February 01, 2005, 01:30:58 pm ---RayB,
You've got much more manly fingers than I do.
I don't want to push ANY button repeatedly in the 5-15 lb. range.

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NoOne,
You ever played the ORIGINAL version of Street Fighter, with the big rubber buttons? Man did my arm get sore on that thing...
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=9803
(and THERE's a cool cab to MAME...

OSCAR:
FWIW, Perfect360 used to make optical pushbuttons and were sold through Wico, but I believe they were discontinued when Happ bought the rights to the Perfect360 technology.  I seem to recall operators hating the P360 buttons due to reliability issues.  According to the old catalog listing, however, they were "spill proof"...

tetsujin:

--- Quote from: OSCAR on February 01, 2005, 06:04:41 pm ---I seem to recall operators hating the P360 buttons due to reliability issues.

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Hm, not encouraging.  Thank you for the information.

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