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New Product: Micro-Leaf™ Arcade Pushbutton Switches - GroovyGameGear
bfauska:
--- Quote from: Level42 on September 30, 2007, 03:33:37 pm ---Hey look: A whole page of leaf switches !
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Or what I may call a whole page of Leaf actuated micro-switches. I'd prefer that when I am quoted the response has something more direct to do with my post. I didn't say they were leaf-switches I said they were micro-switches that used a leaf to trigger them. As such, I would consider it fair play to call these Micro-leaf switches too. I suppose the problem is that the word leaf is directly followed by the word switch. Maybe Leaf-Micro switch would be more appropriate, but then the word leaf is first so clearly the insinuation is that it is a leaf switch. If people could get over their no-hands-on speculative engineering and realize that the name is about the performance as much or more than it is about the mechanics maybe we'd reach a truce.
I don't know if you all realize this or not, but there is not, in fact, a wizard locked away in all of those LED, GP, and Key Wiz products out there, yet their performance seems that way sometimes. No leaf-switch in the Micro Leaf, but it is supposed to behave more like there is than other micro-switch options.
jcoleman:
Please, everyone read the following
http://bloggingexperiment.com/archives/the-art-of-ewar.php
before continuing this asinine thread derailment.
Coleman
PS Yes I have learned my lesson.
patrickl:
--- Quote from: Level42 on September 30, 2007, 03:33:37 pm ---Patrick...maak je niet zo druk over een naam...relax :cheers:
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I'm relaxed. It's not even the name itself. That warrants maybe a quick quip (as exactly how this started) It's more the BS to turn the blame on the people who question the name that keeps me involved.
For instance, when he blames the "confusion" on peoples "poor command of the English language" is just too weak. In the catalog he orders these switches from, they are called Sub-Miniature Lever Microswitch. Then he bolts a piece of plastic on it and all of a sudden it's a micro-leaf switch?
Don't give us the BS. Just take the shame and be done with it. At the very least get off your high horse and accept that you will be called out on an obvious ploys like this.
How many people read the title and assumed it was actually about micro leaf switches (as in small leaf switches)? ie a small version of a Leafswitch + Bracket that Ponyboy sells.
Chris:
Personally, I'm glad it's not the same... after spending all weekend troubleshooting and adjusting leaf switches in an old pinball machine I'll be perfectly happy to never see a real leaf again.
ringram:
What's in a name?
At the end of the day, it's just a name. The bottom line is, is it a good product? Is it worth what you paid for it?
I'm not going to enter into the argument of these being equal to leaf switches, of if the name is mis-leading or not (many examples of that in marketing). My question is, does anybody actually have any of these yet? Have you had a chance to use them for a while? How do they compare to "regular old switches"?
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