Re: Make-before-break switch

["John S. Denker" <jsd@MONMOUTH.COM>]

At 01:12 PM 4/2/01 -0400, Eugene Mosca wrote:
> I am looking for a good photo of a single-pole double-throw
> make-before-break switch.

I've never seen a make-before-break toggle switch.  Only slide-switches and
rotary-switches, e.g.
  http://tpub.com/neets/book3/9c.htm

You adjust the width of the blade(s) on the rotor to choose whether it s
make-before-break or not.

The mechanism found in garden-variety toggle switches is basically unsuited
to the make-before-break application.

It would be straightforward to repackage a rotary switch so it looked and
acted like a toggle switch;  just turn it 90 degrees and put a long lever
on the handle.