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John Do yourself ABIG favor and avoid the magnetic swirches on a dive light. They have been attempted without success on numerous occassions. Stay with simple mechanical switches they are reliable and you bet your life on them. Tom Scott Leimroth wrote: > > John 015 wrote: > > > > >Posted on 24 Sep 1996 at 20:41:35 by Aaron R. Kerestan > > > > >I have been looking around the Internet lately and > > >have found some information on building your own dive lights. > > >A good dive light is something that I could use, I do not have the > > >money purchase a very powerful one, but I do have access to all the > > >facilities to build one. > > > > If you have the time, tools and materials this can be a fun > > project. I suggest you look closely at well regarded commercial > > lights and also the DIY web sites to get both ideas and the names > > of parts suppliers. > > > > >--I have not found a source for a watertight switch, I know Dacor has > > >some, but I cannot find the part supplier that will sell them to me. > > > > You can do this with a magnetic switch without having to compromise > > the integrity of the battery or light-head compartment with another > > through port. > > > > If you are in a hurry to test your ideas you should be able > > to get some RG-8/U or RG-214 coax for just about free at a > > local hamfest. It's 13 AWG and it takes compression well. > > > > Regards, > > John > > -- > > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. > > Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'. > Check out the info at http://www.deepsea.com/profile.html > about u/w lighting. > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. > Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'.
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