SMK Reed switches

deepakkandepet · 19 Nov 2019, 22:59

I have been a lurker on Deskthority for few months now, slowly amassing some of the vintage switches and keyboards found on the Wiki and the forum. I recently found an old Yaskawa Keypad on eBay with some interesting looking switches. Upon closer inspection, they turned out to be a previously unknown SMK reed switches.

They are double-pole capable and illuminated by way of a statically-mounted lamp.

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ZedTheMan · 19 Nov 2019, 23:33

Lovely documentation! Reed switches have always been an interesting thing to me which I have never had the pleasure to try.

Integrated lamp? Nice!

OldIsNew · 20 Nov 2019, 06:09

Very cool find!

Sangdrax · 20 Nov 2019, 15:06

What a great find! Nice breakdown too.

DDD · 10 Dec 2019, 06:11

Great, nice find. I hope to buy it=]]