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From: wolfgang@wsrcc.com (Wolfgang S. Rupprecht)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: switch in the back (was: Re: VDT Electric Fields)
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.051308.15486@wsrcc.com>
Date: 1 Mar 91 05:13:08 GMT
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In article <4472@eastapps.East.Sun.COM> gsteckel@east.sun.com (Geoff Steckel - Sun BOS Hardware CONTRACTOR) writes:
>I've seen advertisements for rear power modules where the user actuator is
>on the front.  An insulated mechanical linkage (read: long plastic rod) connects
>to the actual switch in the module.  Dunno how popular they are - anybody
>out there know?

I have seen old tube type Tek scopes use this trick.  The front panel
had a push-pull knob that attached via a rod to a rocking bucket in
the back.  The little bucket toggled a normal 5/16"-hole mounted
toggle switch.  This arrangement also let them pull out the power
supply, and not have to worry about yet another connector.  Quite
clever actually.

-wolfgang


 
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