Re: the Lorlin Switches..

[dufo]

I wonder...

is it possible, if you say have a 3 or 4 pole switch and need a single pole one, to simply cut off the extra pins? would this work? I have alot of these switches but they are all 4 pole. For the G9, I was thinking of just cutting of whatever pins required to get my 3 and 1 pole switches required. Thanks.

 

[PRR]

> if you say have a 3 or 4 pole switch and need a single pole one, to simply cut off the extra pins?

??? Why cut them off? Just ignore the ones you don't need.

 

[mkruger]

can you just not use the extra poles? why do you need to cut them off? what would cutting them off accomplish?

 

[dufo]

unless I have this completely wrong...

Because for eg., a 4 pole one has 4 pins, but the PCB for a single pole switch only has a hole for the one pin. So to fit, I need to cut the extras off.....no?

 

[PRR]

> but the PCB for a single pole switch only has a hole for the one pin.

Oh.

Yeah, whack off the offending pins.

 

[dufo]

yeah thanks. I should have mentioned the PCB factor in my first post.

ONE more question. I assume it dosent matter which pins I use?

 

[gyraf]

Check first, that they are the right pins i.e. actually part of the switching section that you want to use

 

[kdawg]

http://www.lorlin.co.uk/a.htm

 

[tmbg]

I sorta did that in my first SSL... I accidentally got 3 pole 4 pos lorlins rather than 4 pole 3 pos, but I noticed only one pole was actually USED, so I just bent the other two under so that the switch fit the PCB.

 

[gang of elk]

i got some 2-12 position lorlins from mouser today and i can't figure out how to change the stops. need them to be 3 position. i see stop-holes on the panel side of the switch but no stop-pin. is this another 'mouser classic' where you have to order the $.02 dicky part (needed to make it fully functional) AFTER the main order arrives?

 

[tmbg]

did you take the mounting nut off?

There's a washer with a downturned flange under the mounting nut - that's the stop.

 

[gang of elk]

doh! many thanks.
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