sourcing stacked switches...

[Eliani]

For a project I'm looking for something like this, I've looked pretty much everywhere I can think of, but I've got the feeling they have been made custom...

http://www.mackie.view-media.be/order/index.php?item=switch-dual-dpdt--ltpb-2uee_4uee-no-cap&action=article&aid=290&lang=EN

 

[emrr]

gotta be custom

 

[ruairioflaherty]

Could you make one?  Take two single switches, and stack them?  Bending the pins out on the bottom of the top switch and the opposite on the bottom switch.  Then solder.

 

[RuudNL]

I would do the same!

 

[gyraf]

..but first remove the internal contact plates from the foremost position on the lower switch, in order not to interfere with the upper one..

Jakob E.

 

[ruffrecords]

Is there any mechanical interaction between the two switches?

Cheers

Ian

 

[Eliani]

Just had contact with the Mackie distributor in Belgium, said it was custom built, nobody else makes them... guess I'll have to give it a try to make it myself...

 

[rafafredd]

I don't get why nobody else makes these... talk about something useful!

 

[Tekay]

For a project I'm looking for something like this, I've looked pretty much everywhere I can think of, but I've got the feeling they have been made custom...

http://www.mackie.view-media.be/order/index.php?item=switch-dual-dpdt--ltpb-2uee_4uee-no-cap&action=article&aid=290&lang=EN

How manny do you need? And where are you located?

 

[bruce0]

I get what it does, but now how it would be used.

How does mackie use it?  Is it some sort of monitor swtich?

 

[warpie]

These look like the piggyback switches from toneluck to me.

Sometimes you can find them on evilbay

 

[bruce0]

Here, pbn series
http://www.toneluck.com/pdf/PBN.PDF

Here
http://www.toneluck.com/product2.html

 

[ruffrecords]

Thanks for the link to the .pdf Bruce0. Now I see how they work. The top switch is connected to the front three pairs of pins and the bottom switch is connected to the rear three. Neat.

Cheers

ian

 

[abbey road d enfer]

For a project I'm looking for something like this, I've looked pretty much everywhere I can think of, but I've got the feeling they have been made custom...

Indeed they are custom, but you may find that ITT Jeanrenaud (the original creators of this type of switch) is still active and that it is quite possible to order customs in very small quantities. I order regularly from the french distributor http://www.sp2i.net/composants.html in quantities of a few dozen. They have all sorts of spare parts and build from kits.
their mail contact is on this page
http://www.sp2i.net/english.html