Any recommendations on bread board power switches?
They will be used to turn on my 9v battery supplied bot and should snap in the bread board. My project has 2 power supplies, so 2 SPST or a single switch that can control 2 supplies (DPST?) are needed.
I tried some slide switches from Mouser, but they do not fit on the bread board very well. It took a plier to make them fit at all. The switch does not have to be a slide switch, but I am looking for cheap.
For DP switches, I doubt you can fit on a breadboard without shorting the DP into a SP. For SPDT switches, I used this one from sparkfun.com Friendly to breadboard. You can get two of these for your two power supplies.
To be honest, I would just take whatever I had and solder some wires to it to fit the board. Not worth that much aggravation, IMHO.
Point well taken. I have some switches that I manhandled with a plier to fit in a breadboard. They function okay, but fit kind of loose. I'm trying to make it solid enough that my ten-year-old son can turn it on without it falling apart. The same is true with regard to my other posts about molex connectors. Loose connections are very aggravating.
I generally use hot-glue to fix whatever tricky things at the corners of the breadboard (pots, switches, connectors). It makes it more difficult to re-use them, but we are talking about a few $$ only...