Goofballtech:
PeterH:
Why not orient the switch so that it does not present an end stop to the cap?Interesting. How so?
Hard to know what PeterH had in mind but a lever microswitch held such that the rod passing it deflected the lever would be a very basic way:
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An optical path broken by the rod would be another way.