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Mounting LEDs in translucent happs pushbuttons (joymonkey?)
ShinAce:
The plunger is exposed at 2 places, a flat circle for your finger to press, and 2 little tabs on the other side(that hit the microswitch). You just push the tabs towards the inside and push it in. Now you can grab the circular part of the plunger and easily remove it with 2 fingers.
Putting it back in is easier. Compress the spring, and squeeze the 2 tabs together, now slide it into the button.
juggle50:
Moving target, what was the viewing angle rating of your LED's? Mine is 45 degrees so I'm hoping to not get the flashlight effect. Joy Monkey, I think you said that worked pretty well.
When I drill the hole in the button the plastic curls up in the button. Anybody else have this problem?
MovingTarget:
I see nothing that came with my LEDs that say what the viewing angle is.
You should try hooking one up through the bottom to see if you get that flashlight effect or not. Hooking the LED to a 9v battery worked for me but I had a few extra LEDs in case I ruined it.
I did try JoyMonkey's method of removing the plunger on the button and it worked so you should do that to get that curly plastic garbage out of the button that was created when you drilled the hole. In all the drilling I did I easily got the excess out without removing the plunger but maybe I was just lucky.
JoyMonkey:
I've found that the 45
JoyMonkey:
--- Quote from: MovingTarget on February 09, 2006, 08:56:53 pm ---Hooking the LED to a 9v battery worked for me but I had a few extra LEDs in case I ruined it.
--- End quote ---
NEVER HOOK-UP AN LED DIRECTLY TO A POWER SOURCE WITHOUT FIRST PUTTING AN APPROPRIATE RESISTOR IN-LINE.
Read up on how LEDs are supposed to be used.
And use this calculator to figure out what kind of resistor your LEDs require.
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