Re: Mercury Switches - What do you substitute for them?


"mechanized_robot" <mechanized_robot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am building a series of handbuilt toys that need to be "ON" when
positioned down and "OFF" when 180-degrees reversed or up. The devices
are completely self-contained so using a positioning sensor is not an
option. I can build a functional switch with a ball bearing housed in a
closed tube with 2 contacts on 1 end and nothing on the other or use a
mercury switch. As it is a toy, I don't want to do that. So, what is
the substitute for a mercury switch?

TYIA, Thomas

Some soft toys have a soft switch in a hand or somewhere that turns it on
and it times of after a little while.
Might be better than relying on turning the toy over.

John G.


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