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Posted: 4/12/2005 9:32:04 PM EDT
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After seeing the ridicilously priced tail-cap remote switch things, I decided I could make on for under ten dollars. My Plan: Drill hole in end cap for wire to pass through Attach one end of wire to the spring Put a piece of rubber between the spring and batteries Attach the other piece of wire to the end of the battery Run the wires to the switch (My problem, is i can't find a "touch pad switch" I want a on/off/momentary touch pad switch. Anyone have any ideas??) Thanks |
Try going to the local dollar store and picking up a calculator. Tear into it and maybe you can fashion a pressure switch out of the button parts combined with some heat-shrink tubing. I don't know if the calculator switch will work due to the power difference, but heck...it's only a buck or two to try, huh? hmmmmmm........by the way...thanks for the idea. I may just try this myself. now...where's that soldering gun????
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Calculator would be hard because I believe the switches/buttons don't act as a switch. They just touch a circuit board when pressed. (like your keyboard) I think I'm just going to go to radio shack and buy a rocker switch (on/off). Then use an old phone cord for the wire. Fabricate some sort of mounting bracket for the switch out of velcro and some sort of metal piece. (maybe the thing your can slip a handheld radio on in a vehicle, you know the hand part of the CB radio) I'll try getting pics up WHEN it works. |
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