Micro Switches

[Ken Culbertson]

Do any of you know where I can find a source to a 3PDT ON/ON micro switch.  All I can find searching are either large 120 volt switches or stuff on overseas web sites.  I want it to allow me to toggle ESC#2 between the ESC and the Jeti box on my twin.  Having to disconnect ESC#2 to plug in the Jeti is going to be extremely difficult.  I am spoiled from having that port attached to a patch cable that is permanently imbedded in the fuselage side so all I have to do is plug in the box and hit the power switch.  I can make timer programming changes in about 15 seconds and never have to even pick up the plane.  With the twin ESC#2 is plugged into that port and with the Fiorotti that port is on the bottom of the timer making it difficult to reach to swap it for the Jeti.  This switch solves the problem.  Problem is nomenclature.  When I search using the 3PDT I get all kinds of ON/OFF types and lots of toggles.  I hope some of you electronics wizzards know what this is called and where I might get one.  This one was on EBay England and would have cost me $15 just in shipping.

Ken

[Steve Thompson]

Might you be really looking for a DPDT, double pole double throw?

The one shown is typically called a slide switch.

If you want three positions, that is typically called On-Off-On.

Mouser.com should have anything electrical you may need, if you can find inner calm and embrace their search engine.

[Crist Rigotti]

No, he needs a 3PDT slide switch.

[Ken Culbertson]

No, he needs a 3PDT slide switch.

Si!

I am pondering a plan "B" which is to have a patch cable to a connector splice then to the ESC.  This could be hidden near a vent and pulled out to change the timer.
 This would mean unequal lengths from the timer to the ESC with one wire having a splice.  Not knowing enough about electronics, is this going to cause a timing issue between the ESC's.  I suspect not but it is better to ask.

Ken

[Arlan McKee]

Ken,
Mouser.com has some sliders that may work for you. I can't remember how reasonable their shipping is but they are one of the few companies that sell 10,000 of something and are also willing to sell just one.
To add to what Steve said, if you Google "3PDT switch mouser" it will pull up the right page for you without dealing with their endless options.

[Massimo Rimoldi]

Do any of you know where I can find a source to a 3PDT ON/ON micro switch. ...................

Ken

Try here   

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/slide-switches/213?s=N4IgjCBcpgzADFUBjKAXATgVwKYBoQB7KAbRACZ5yAWMANhAF0CAHNKEAZUwEsA7AOYgAvsILlSXAO480yABZMCDaCB4ATDgFowiVu0ggQBNAE8WODiOFA
Massimo

[Ken Culbertson]

Thanks - they appear to have what I am looking for.  Only question is that the specs do not state if it is On/On or On/Off.  Maybe On/On is assumed by the 9 pins.  $10 for 2 including shipping.  That works!

Ken

[Dan McEntee]

Try here   

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/slide-switches/213?s=N4IgjCBcpgzADFUBjKAXATgVwKYBoQB7KAbRACZ5yAWMANhAF0CAHNKEAZUwEsA7AOYgAvsILlSXAO480yABZMCDaCB4ATDgFowiVu0ggQBNAE8WODiOFA
Massimo

    At the printing company that I spent most of my working career at we used Digikey for a lot of our small electronic parts. They had quick response and a great catalog. ( We were printers, or course!! Getting a hard copy catalog help some one else keep their job!!) There was one more, but I just can't dig it out of my memory bank. What one may not have had, the other one did. Ink and register control systems had gotten quite small, and the designers  of the systems made for relative easy service and repair of things at a board level. Some process machines in the bindery also.

  Type at you later,
   Dan McEntee

[Massimo Rimoldi]

Thanks - they appear to have what I am looking for.  Only question is that the specs do not state if it is On/On or On/Off.  Maybe On/On is assumed by the 9 pins.  $10 for 2 including shipping.  That works!

Ken

Apply filters and select what you need

Massimo

[Ken Culbertson]

Apply filters and select what you need

Massimo

Arrived today and all wired up I have a 6gram switchbox that will allow me to swap the timer's lower pins between ESC2 and the Jeti box.  THANK YOU!

Ken
 

[katana]

I'm loathe to say this but you didn't need a 3PDT switch! . . . . .  +Red and -Black are common to all so switching the signal white was all that was required - 1PDT - cost pennies and easy to find. 

[Ken Culbertson]

I'm loathe to say this but you didn't need a 3PDT switch! . . . . .  +Red and -Black are common to all so switching the signal white was all that was required - 1PDT - cost pennies and easy to find. 

What you are saying is that the pix below will successfully detach the 2nd ESC from the timer and give control to the Jeti box for programming the timer.  I have a bunch of 2PDT switches that can double as a 1PDT I can use for that.  Worth a try I have $3 and 20min invested in the 3PDT.  Less than the cost of a sheet of 1/16 balsa these days.

Ken

[katana]

Effectively Yes - it functions as a change over switch ie. diverts the signal one way or the other!