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Subject: 
Re: Touch Switch 2974
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics.rcx
Date: 
Sun, 29 Jun 2003 12:29:56 GMT
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> > indeed, the construction of this beast may be very different (e.g. metallic
> > contact, 0 resistance... and a lot of bounce almost completely avoided with
> > conductive rubber)
> 
> I was fortunate enough to find one of these on BrickLink and
> it just came in today.  It turns out the resistance is 2.2K and I
> suspect the contacts are metal since the resistance doesn't seem
> to vary with pressure.  It's an open circuit when the actuator
> is not pressed.

Did you try to test contact bounce ? since there is a rather high value
resistor, perhaps Lego added a small capacitor too to debounce it?

Philo

www.philohome.com



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  Re: Touch Switch 2974
 
"Philippe Hurbain" <philohome@free.fr> wrote in message news:HH8tDw.B8I@lugnet.com... (...) metallic (...) with (...) No capacitor as far as I can tell. I looked at it on the scope and the transitions were no different than if I just used a 2.2K (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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  Touch Switch 2974
 
(...) metallic (...) with (...) I was fortunate enough to find one of these on BrickLink and it just came in today. It turns out the resistance is 2.2K and I suspect the contacts are metal since the resistance doesn't seem to vary with pressure. (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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