The importance of using the right miniature switch for your products

Posted by Elite Technology on December 14th, 2017

Creating any product requires that you focus on making sure that the customer experience is as good as possible, and that means ensuring that the ways that your customer interacts with your product are high quality. One of the key areas where this is true is in the switches that you use in your products. Figuring out how to select the right switches is important, and part of that is picking out the right supplier to get you the different types of switches that you need for your products.

You need to know that the switches that you use fit a couple of key metrics. One of the main things that you’ll want to know is that you have access to the right size switches, as a larger switch simply won’t be able to be used in an area that was designed for a micro switch or miniature switch.

Within each product size, you’ll want to pick out a few different factors that matter most to you. There are standard types of switches within each product size that control for factors like activation force, and by choosing the things that are most important to you, it makes it easier for you to better determine what really matters when you are looking at switches.

Most manufacturers that you look at will often have a couple of different ways that you can customize your switches as well. If you need a completely custom switch, then you will want to work with a manufacturer that allows you to customize every aspect of the product. When it comes to the switches that you are using however, you may want easier application of them on a PCB, which would require something like Snaptron’s Peel-N-Place dome array, which allows you to place a number of dome switches onto a PCB easily. There are other options as well, including equipment that speeds up that placement task while maintaining high accuracy, and testing equipment that allows you to conform to ASTM standards. If you’d like to learn more about their firm, then visit their website at www.snaptron.com.