Hi everyone! I was wondering if I could possibly get some help in identifying a slide switch for a AC Controller.
Hello @KyleStilkey
Welcome to the TechForum
The closest slide switch I could find to the ones in the photo is part number 2223-SLW-874744-6A-RA-N-D-ND, please review the datasheet to make sure this part will work for your application.
If the switch that @anthony_14117 mentioned would not do, here’s a link to more similar switches to consider.
Unfortunately, we do not have dimensions other than actuator length listed, so one may have to take a look at some datasheets of similar looking parts to try to find one that will fit.
The key dimensions for you would be the pitch, which is the spacing distance from the center of one pin to the next, and the overall width of the switch, since you don’t have much spare room between switches. See image below:
Image of the 1101M2S5AQE2
Note that many switches will have two metal pins near the front or on the sides of the switch body. These are there strictly for stability and have no electrical function (other than that some metal-body types use these to electrically shield the part). If necessary to fit, you can generally cut these off.
Ok so I have the switch and the Width is 12mm with the pitch between each pin coming in at 4mm. Maybe I am just miss reading the data sheets but it seems like most are around 2-3mm.
Hi KyleStilkey
I looked at a few of the switches anthony_14117 offered, the pitch is 4.7mm or 4.75mm
CKC5102-ND
datasheet
When you measure pitch, are you measuring between pins or center to center? Another way to do it is to measure from one side of one pin to the same side of the next pin. Or to be more accurate, measure from one side of the first pin to the same side of the third pin and divide by two.
As an example, looking at the datasheet for the 1101M2S5AQE2 mentioned above shows the pitch for that part to be 4.70mm (0.185") and the body width is 12.70mm (0.500"). Note that it may be possible to bend the pins slightly to accommodate slightly different pin pitch. Also note that the front face of the switch body is 9.53mm (0.375") in front of the center of the contact pcb holes.
Note that the image above is for the 1101M2S3ABE2, which has a shorter actuator. The actuator for the 1101M2S5AQE2 is 9.40mm (0.370"), as seen on page 3 of the datasheet:
Besides the 1101M2S5AQE2, the 48ASSP1S2M6RBT has almost identical dimensions, but has a slightly shorter actuator, at 7.24mm (0.285").
I had messured the pins from the left side of pin 1 to the right side of pin 2, not middle to middle as I saw a lot of the datasheets showed. Bending them would be fine I’m sure. This is for a AC/Heating controller for a school so they can’t afford the down time so I grabbed what I could. I’m going to order a few that have been reccomended here and give it a shot.
Bending isn’t too much of a problem figured at worse that might have to happen. I’ll report back what ended working out. Appreciate all the help on this so far.
Hi @KyleStilkey ,
According to the image, the pin spacing should be somewhere between 2.5mm to 3mm (comparing to the DIL package pins next to it).
The switch resembles the old C&K SS12F21 type switch (which is probably not manufactured any more by C&K).
Cheers, heke
These look identical but I’ve never heard of that website before.
