Meaning of tactile switch

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Spectacular Butter

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• Feb 24, 2005

• #1

what are tactile switches? joystick?

 

zevon8

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• Feb 24, 2005

• #2

It often refers to one of those little snap switches like those in a keyboard, a small momentary push button swtich with a short stroke.

Also sometimes these are membrane typ switches with a metal snap disc.

Commonly seen mounted on a PCB with a separate plastic button actuating it.

 

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Spectacular Butter

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• Feb 24, 2005

• #3

is it used like a joystick?

 

Nigel Goodwin

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• Feb 24, 2005

• #4

Spectacular Butter said:

is it used like a joystick?

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Not really, it's just a momentary contact push switch (cheap mice use them), some cheap joysticks use them - although better examples of both would probably use micro-switches.

 

zevon8

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• Feb 24, 2005

• #5

looks like this:

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lavenatti

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• Feb 25, 2005

• #6

You can usually get a bunch of them out of the front panel of an old VCR.

 

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FRIED

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• Feb 25, 2005

• #7

You can feel them click
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