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cheap DPDT stompswitches

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2/3/2000 2:57 AM
MG	cheap DPDT stompswitches Hi! Read somewhere recently about some really inexpensive DPDT footswitches, from MCM electronics or was it Mouser? Anyone got the info, part #? Thanks

2/3/2000 4:56 AM
jered	It's MCM. part# AR70736. Good luck, Jered

2/3/2000 11:33 AM
Fuzzman	I can't find this in my catalog. Where did you get the number? FM

2/3/2000 5:37 PM
Carl S. (aka PurpleP)	AMZ Jack Orman's AMZ site has info on them, and he posted here somewhere about them not being in the catalog from MCM. Check out http://www.muzique.com and look at the "triple bypass" page.

2/3/2000 6:06 PM

I have MCM catalog#41, they are on page 450, listed under Section 17, Project Accessories, Switches. I am using several of these and they work pretty good but are really sensitive to heat; I melted one with my 40W iron while trying to solder a lead to it. The terminal got too hot and shifted in the switch housing. I hope it wasn't my poor soldering ;-)

;-)

Also, the switch is too short to work in some wah pedals, I couldn't get it to work in a EH Crying Tone Pedal or a Cry Baby. Works fine otherwise.

2/3/2000 9:02 PM

what about one with the least click?

I'm using the carling dpdt in my sos, but the click is killing me. Any switches out there that click less? I do have 1m to ground on the input side of the cap, but that didn't help any. Another problem is the box (hammond 1590) picks up alot of pings. I can tap on it and hear it in the amp. I've yet to paint the thing, so maybe when I do that will stop some of this. So I guess what I'm after is ways to stop the pings and clicks. Anybody?

2/4/2000 11:26 AM
paul perry	The click isn't a function of the switch itself. It's a function of the circuit.

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