Micro switch knowledge

  Micro Switch Definition A micro switch has a small contact interval and a snap-action mechanism and uses a specified stroke and a specified force to perform switching operations. It is a switch that covered by a shell and has a drive rod outside. Because of the small contact distance, we not only call it a micro switch but also call it a sensitive switch or snap action switch. The micro switch is composed of 5 major types of constituent elements. The contact distance is small and the torque is large, which is the most obvious characteristic of the switch. Generally, there is a drive rod outside. Micro Switch Working Principle The external mechanical force acts on the leaf spring through the transmission elements, such as press pins, buttons, levers, rollers, etc. When the leaf spring is displaced to the critical point, then the end of the spring leaf and the fixed contact point will turn on or off quickly. And, when the force on the transmission element is removed, the ...

  A shift lever microswitch is used for signalization in a car shift system. Today, I will use  Cadillac SLS  as an example to show you how to replace the micro switch on the shift lever Firstly, in order to operate easily, we need to take the whole shift system off the car to the ground. Like the picture show. Because of the invisible screws, we need to unload carefully or may damage your parts inside. Secondly, find where the micro switch is. Open the shift lever inner structure, you can see a 2 solder terminal micro switch wiring with cable. Let look carefully, we can know the rating of this item is 0.1A, 5E4, and T120. This is why I say the micro switch is only for signalization in the car system. Then, take it off with a soldering iron. Thirdly, solder a new switch to replace the old one. Fourthly, do the re-installment. Meanwhile,  if you want to use another brand switch to replace it. You need to make sure most of the  parameters are the same as the...

Where is microwave door switch?   That is easy to find it! Firstly, the door switch is a micro switch to control the current in the machine to make sure the door is closed before you switch on the circuit. But how to find the door switch in a micro-wave. Let’s go to find it. We can see from the picture, the switch is on the right side of the machine. You can’t see the micro switch unless you take off the control panel. When it is taken off, we can see the micro switch, there are 2 pieces of microswitches behind the oven frame. Such as the following picture. It is really easy, right? However, we not only need to know where it is, but we need to know how to replace it. So we need to understand what kinds of micro switch is behind the micro-wave. In fact, the different micro-wave ovens have different requirements for switches. For example, the microswitch in the picture is the  G5T16 series , C1 terminal and SPST normally closed design, which is so important to decide if you can...

We are not difficult to find that there 2 types of microswitch on the market. One of them is a silent switch and another one is an audible click switch. The easiest to identify is whether it can hear the sound when to be pressed and released. For example, when you use a mouse to click the right or left mouse button that is what we talk about the micro switch with an audible click. However,  they are quite different in internal structure. From the attached picture below, we can see the actual difference and can classify into 3 types, which including leaf spring, spring, and clip types. And the leaf Spring and Spring types belong to audible click switch while clip type switch belongs to the silent microswitch . So, what are microswitch with an audible click? In fact, the audible click sound from a micro switch is because the contacts strike on each other. Generally, the bigger size, the louder. Zing Ear  G5 ,  G6 ,  G10 ,  G5W11 ,  and G9 series are the micr...

Most people are familiar with joystick but the micro switch. In fact, micro switch is a parts of it to deliver a signal in a circuit. If we wanna know microswitch joystick, we need to understand what is a joystick. Joysticks pull off a really neat trick. They take something entirely physical and translate it into something entirely mathematical. With a good joystick, the translation is so flawless that you completely forget about it. When you’re really engaged in a game, you feel like you’re interacting with the virtual world directly. There are about 4 types of joysticks in the market, including Digital Joysticks, Paddle Joysticks, (Pc ) Analog Joysticks, and Joypads. But micro switch joystick what is belong to? Actually, it is the Analog Joysticks. You can see the attached picture, there are 4 pieces of micro switches in the bottom. When user control the roller to left side, then the left side switch will be pressured and the circuit from NC to NO, the signal transmission successful....