Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations cowski on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Search results for query: *

  1. Joshua Wales

    Design not to break electrical buttons

    itsmoked, having looked at the data sheets though they don't generally give an allowable force then to know if they are designed to handle the specific application. Is there some general rule on how much force would be allowed? Josh
  2. Joshua Wales

    Design not to break electrical buttons

    Thanks! I have considered doing a sort of linear camp profile to activate a microswitch or some other push button switch, so I may go ahead and do that, but definitely takes more room. I'll do some thinking about a lever idea, I was hoping there was something I was missing here or some good...
  3. Joshua Wales

    Design not to break electrical buttons

    Simple problem, if I have a large button a user can put their hand on then I'm afraid they can put too much force and break the electrical button underneath. If I make the external button bottom out before the electrical button (push button switch) how do I ensure the electrical button always...

Part and Inventory Search