[Amps] Ratshack switches

[Will Matney]

I don't know if any has experienced this but figured I'd mention it to save some money. I bought some rocker switches at Radio Shack, the ones that look like the square rocker switches, but mount in a round hole. Now they have two types, this was the smaller of the two. I checked the operation with a meter before I installed one in a chassis. Next, I installed it, adding the nut, then checked it again, worked fine. I then soldered on the wire to the lugs. This was 20 gauge solid which takes about a whole 3 seconds to solder the joint. After this, a test found it went bad. I tried several after this, thinking maybe I just got one bad one. Not so, every one did this and was toast. If they supply solder terminals, which all are, they surely should withstand a whole 3 seconds of the soldering iron. So, watch out for these as the one type is just a quick waste of cash. I'll try to find the part number on them as it's been a while. Who knows, they may have already pulled them.

Best,

Will