I have tried both ball bearing and mercury tilt switches. So far, both have kind of a stutter. That is, when you tilt them, the circuit is closes, opens momentarily, then is closes again. I really need one that doesn't have that momentary opening. Do you have any like that?
Thanks a lot for your help.
Trish
P.S. My angle of tilt requirement is flexible, but would ideally be around 30 degrees.
Hi Patty,
This is a very common problem when interfacing the outside world to electronics...the contacts bounce a bit before making a continuous electrical close
So what you want is a debounce circuit added to your tilt switch. This is usually taken care in software these days, but you can add a resistor and a capacitor across the contacts to stretch the apparent closure time constant enough that the switch will settle down to fully closed.
Some examples:
And so on...
John :-#)#
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