4pdt METAL stomp switches??

runmikeyrun · January 23, 2006, 05:43:31 PM

do they exist?? I read up on another post from last march about someone finding plastic ones... are there metal ones out there?? If so i need one for my "creation"

radio · January 23, 2006, 05:57:00 PM

They might cost more than the rest of your circuit

http://www.banzaieffects.com/home.php?cat=246

Down second last in the page

Greetings JME

runmikeyrun · January 23, 2006, 06:40:00 PM

ok, so at least i know they're available. Anywhere to get em in the states?? Yeah with the conversion rate and int'l shipping it'd probably be about $40...

Maybe i can do without the LED after all!!

H.Manback · January 23, 2006, 06:59:59 PM

Isn't there something you could switch with a FET by any chance? If so you could just use a 3pdt and use one of the lugs to switch 2 FETs on and off, with one of them being for the LED.

Alternatively you could use the millenium bypass for your LED? At such prices I would certainly start looking for alternative ways

Gladmarr · January 23, 2006, 09:20:42 PM

4PDT

I just posted this for someone else the other day. They're from Mouser. They're the same switch as the one at Banzai.

DavidS · January 23, 2006, 11:22:32 PM

Well there's always the option of using a footswitch actuator (available from Smallbear) and a 4pdt pushbutton (Mouser,etc.). Much cheaper solution, though a bit more work to mount...

Paul Perry (Frostwave) · January 24, 2006, 07:51:10 AM

You can put two ordinary 2 pole switches beside each other & join a piece of metal across the two buttons so they switch at the same time.

doug deeper · January 24, 2006, 11:42:08 AM

or just use a 3pdt and a dpdt relay.

TheBigMan · January 24, 2006, 12:21:38 PM

You could use a 3PDT relay with a latching SPST switch then put the LED in parallel to the relay coil. Or two DPDT relays might be cheaper.

Mark Hammer · January 24, 2006, 02:21:40 PM

Quote from: Gladmarr on January 23, 2006, 09:20:42 PM
4PDT

I just posted this for someone else the other day. They're from Mouser. They're the same switch as the one at Banzai.

I've had a bunch of those, bought surplus, or a number of years. NOT recommended as a stompswitch. Pushbutton? Yes. Foot-actuated? Well, for maybe a couple of weeks. The only conditions I could really see using them as foot-actuated would be those where some sort of protective channel is placed around the shaft of the part sticking out of the panel such that the plunger had nowhere else to go but precisely perpendicular to the chassis. Any allowance for lateral play and its a goner.

Gladmarr · January 24, 2006, 06:27:13 PM

It looks like these guys have been using them on their effects for some time.

http://lalweb.com/effects-e.html

I haven't had any troubles with my moduloscillo fuzz box dealie.

Khas Evets · January 24, 2006, 06:44:16 PM

What are you trying to accomplish. Maybe we can suggest a better solution. Millennium bypass with a 3PDT for example.

runmikeyrun · January 24, 2006, 07:24:34 PM

i've got a TSA rigged in a wah housing. I used a 3pdt for a different kind of bypass... normally when you switch to bypass it bypasses the whole send/recieve loop. I wanted it to bypass the feedback only and keep the fx loop in there. I thought it would be nice to add an LED to help know where i stood with it (my noise gets crazy with and without it, sometimes it is hard to tell the difference).

I guess you could say that a wah pedal would give you a straight up and down push on the plunger, so i might try that switch... when i get $30!! I don't need it that bad! I know i could build the millenium bypass but i was really trying to keep it simple since it's a simple circuit.

Thanks for the help guys, appreciated.

Mike

smallbearelec · January 24, 2006, 09:30:36 PM

Like a lot of other items, this, too will be available in the Cave "eventually." When I was at NAMM, Cliff showed me their only sample of an Italian-made 4PDT true stomper that they will have in the next few months. Price will be on the same order as the 3PDT. Patience...

nelson · January 24, 2006, 10:09:52 PM

Quote from: smallbearelec on January 24, 2006, 09:30:36 PM
Like a lot of other items, this, too will be available in the Cave "eventually." When I was at NAMM, Cliff showed me their only sample of an Italian-made 4PDT true stomper that they will have in the next few months. Price will be on the same order as the 3PDT. Patience...

Great news for us stereo junkies.

ExpAnonColin · January 24, 2006, 10:49:44 PM

This could also easily be done with electronic switching (IE CD4016) though it would not be *perfectly* TB anymore. Most electronic switches come in quad package anyways.

-Colin

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