I was thinking about using a mercury switch for some application (detecting if a horizontal item is tilted vertically), but understand that mercury switches are being phased out because they are environmentally unfriendly and potentially toxic. Does anyone know what is being used as a replacement to perform the same function? Either in a electromechanical switch or in a chip (I seem to remember something about it). Thank you.
Analog Devices makes accelerometer chips that detect x-y-z tilt.
Of course, if you looked in sci.electronics.components where this sort of question really belongs, you might notice that the same question was asked there on November 19th, with 14 replies.
Michael
This was discussed a couple of weeks ago in sec:
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My answer was to stock up on mercury switches.
Luhan
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