CTS offers a series of DIP switches, including part number 194-8MST. You may have encountered this switch elsewhere with an ‘N’ suffix, as in 194-8MSTN. Does this ‘N’ suffix affect the part, and can DigiKey’s N-less switches be used interchangeably with the “N”?
You absolutely can. The switch itself is identical in both part numbers; the additional ‘N’ indicates that the device is shipped with its switches set to the ‘ON’ position rather than the ‘OFF’ position. If your assembly process doesn’t care about this default shipping position or be adapted to accommodate it, the two numbers are completely interchangeable.