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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 96 00:10:20 EDT
From: John 015 <CC015012@BR*.br*.ed*>
Subject: Re: Building My Own Dive Light??????
To: techdiver@terra.net

>Posted on 25 Sep 1996 at 12:54:12 by Tom Mount

>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.

I use them and have for a long time now.  I use both Hall effect
sensors and reed relays.  Both these types will take millions upon
millions of operations but a mechanical switch is conceptually
simpler and easier to build and wire up.

John

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