How do i install this switch?

• Mar 19, 2009

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here is the switch
http://www.dealextreme.com/shoppingcart.dx/remove.6252

first off, will this switch work?

i followed this guide for my driver
http://www.laserpointerforums.com/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1185701612

if anyone could explain to me how this works, be awesome

[i fail to read, pictures are always better for me =]

THANKS GUYS

(after i get my diode, i will show you guys my SUPER DUPER GHETTO LASER POINTER....
when i mean ghetto, i mean ghettttttoooooooo!!!)

 

• Mar 19, 2009

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It seems you've copied and pasted the wrong URL for the switch, you've pasted your shopping cart link.

Anyways, switches are very simple devices, they consist of nothing more than a wire which is connected when you push the switch. There should only be two wires coming out of the switch, one of them should go to the - terminal of your battery, the other should go to the - terminal of your driver.

 

• Mar 19, 2009

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sorry sorry

here is the link

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.5604

is there any type of diagram i should follow =]

anyways ill show you guys a picture tomorrow of my host

and ima take apart my dvd burner tomorrow

 

• Mar 21, 2009

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The middle pin of that switch and either of the side pins will be disconnected by default, then connected when the switch is pressed.

Solder the middle pin of the switch to your battery, solder either of the side pins to your driver. The driver will only get voltage when the switch is pressed.

Good luck!

 

• Mar 21, 2009

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this switch i have doesnt have a middle pin =[

 

• Mar 21, 2009

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nosebleedXD said:

this switch i have doesnt have a middle pin =[

Click to expand...

Did you not have http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.5604 ?

 

• Mar 21, 2009

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well i was thinking of getting that and how would i do it if i got that

but i found something similar i took apart and used that instead

its similar to that switch but then it only has two pins, a positive and a negative

 

• Mar 22, 2009

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well then, solder one side of the switch to the battery, the other to your driver.

think about how a switch could possibly work, see if you can grasp the concept, it's not difficult. it's just two metal pieces that aren't touching, then when you press the switch they touch, completing the circuit.

 

• Mar 22, 2009

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oh ..... kk i got it to work thanks

so basically this is what i was suppose to do right? and i did

i connected the positive side of the battery to the driver directly

then i connected the negative from the battery to one side of the switch

and then the other pin of the switch, i attached it to the negative side of the driver

=] now it works thanks