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Guardian Electric Contact Switches

For The Popcorn

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I have about 120 of these contact switches. I don't know what their intended purpose is/was, but I can see some applications like a massive old-school cam-driven light controller, or perhaps alarm switches with an added plunger.

A cam controller would have a cam for each switch, mounted on a rotating shaft. High spots on each cam would close each switch according to its cam shape. Seems like it could be a cool 3D printed project.

I see that similar contacts without the bend are used in pinball machines.

These contacts are about an inch in each dimension, with a pair of mounting holes. No idea about the contact ratings.

Yeah, I know that it would be much simpler with a micro, but there's something about a mechanism that's just cool.

Anybody interested? I'm in the US.

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You can design a 3D-printed cam system to operate the switches. Each cam can be customized to control different lights or devices in a sequence.
 
You can design a 3D-printed cam system to operate the switches. Each cam can be customized to control different lights or devices in a sequence

Yeah, I believe that's what I said above.
 

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