{"id":9792,"date":"2014-06-28T12:07:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T19:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=9792"},"modified":"2014-09-27T11:57:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T18:57:45","slug":"2014-06-27-very-tiny-microswitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=9792","title":{"rendered":"2014-06-27 Very Tiny Microswitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/wpid-wp-1403984479893.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1403984479893\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/wpid-wp-1403984479893.jpeg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I bought a tray of 50 of these tiny microswitches from Goldmine-elec.com&nbsp; for a very reasonable price of ten dollars U.S.&nbsp; As can be seen,&nbsp; both the switch and a transistor easily fit on a dime with room to spare.&nbsp; These will enable me to make some auto shutoff Joule Thief lights that are much smaller than previous ones for a very reasonable price.  <\/p>\n<p>These tiny critters are really micro sized.  The trick will be how to mount them so they don&#8217;t get damaged yet are still easy to actuate. <\/p>\n<p>Typical prices for a momentary contact pushbutton switch are more than a dollar, and they are much larger in size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a tray of 50 of these tiny microswitches from Goldmine-elec.com&nbsp; for a very reasonable price of ten dollars U.S.&nbsp; As can be seen,&nbsp; both the switch and a transistor easily fit on a dime with room to spare.&nbsp; These will enable me to make some auto shutoff Joule Thief lights that are much<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=9792\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9792"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9842,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792\/revisions\/9842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}