A high level of safety is claimed with the 3600 Tippmatic rocker switch that features an integrated, automatic electrical shut-off function with several shut-off delays available. The switch is suited ...

A device that opens and closes an electric circuit. It uses a lever that is moved up and down; a light switch on the wall being a common example. Early computers, especially mainframes, often had many ...

How about a mains switch that turns itself completely off? Omron has released such a thing: a manual mains switch with a coil inside that will flip it to the ‘off’ position following the application ...

Ars is a place on the Internet where people have opinions (I know, I repeat myself). For some reason I was wondering why decora switches were invented and while looking at that I found many people who ...

USB toggle switches make it possible to connect one USB device to multiple computers. Though the connected device can't be used with all the computers simultaneously, you can toggle between the ...

Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based adventure connoisseur, a lover of terrible movies and an enthusiastic yet mediocre cook. A CNET editor from 2013 to 2024, Ry's ...

We all have too much stock of one component or another. Maybe you have more audio pots than you know what to do with, or maybe it’s zener diodes. For [technologyguy], that thing is a pile of toggle ...

This Toggle Switch uses the popular Johnson Decade counter IC CD4017. By giving positive pulses to its clock input, the ten outputs of the IC becomes high one by one provided the reset pin is grounded ...

I ordered a blue cold-cathode light from FrozenCPU and it comes with a rocker switch. How hard would it be to put a hole in my case to accomidate the switch? Keep in mind that I have no modding ...