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Another way to go about this is just to connect a digital multimeter with a
continuity "beep" function across the outer switch terminals and flip the
switch back and forth. If you don't hear a "beep" it's break before make.

I have a quantity of DPDT on-off-pressure*on (in one position the switch
stays on and in the opposite position when you release pressure on it, it
goes back to center). They are of unknown origin; I believe I got them from
All Electronics. They are all break-before-make.

Zack

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 8:21 PM, MoreOrLess <Brewskister@gmail.com> wrote:

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> --- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com <AVR-Chat%40yahoogroups.com>, "Steve
> Hodge" <steve@...> wrote:
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> > Thanks, Mike. The part is a DPDT on-on toggle, Mountain Switch p/n
> > 108-0043-EVX, which is also the Mouser p/n. I have the odd feeling that
> > Mountain Switch and Mouser are related, not just by identical p/n's but
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> > by the fact that a google on the former always leads to the latter.
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> > Steve
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> I have taken switches like that apart and all have had an arm with contacts
> on both sides goes back and forth, to and fro, with the movement of the bat
> handle. Not being able to be two places at the same time... You get the
> picture.
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> That said, if you took a low current fuse, say 1/10 or 1/100 amp job and
> connected a battery post through the fuse and to one of the outside
> terminals of the switch, then the other outside terminal of the switch back
> to the other post of the battery.
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> Now flipped the switch back and forth, how many times, pick a number, 1, 10
> or 100, the fuse will still be good. Two possibilities. One, its break
> before make. Two, the switch never makes long enough to blow the fuse but
> that I think is unlikely. The make before break would never be long enough
> to do any good, so what would be the use.
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> Good luck and don't burn the house down,
> Mike
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