Is there a difference between the push-buttons and the momentary-push-buttons?

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Hi,

I have one of these small push-buttons (https://blog.adafruit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/6button.jpg) and one of the little bigger momentary-push-button (https://cdn.sparkfun.com/assets/learn_tutorials/3/1/0/Arduino_circuit_05_01.png).
Is there a difference between these two? or is it just the size?

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Just size.

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Grumpy_Mike:
Just size.

Ok ,thanks :slight_smile:

Do you know what the expicit purpose is for the bigger buttons? Is it just like with the potentiometers which just have bigger knobs?

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A push button is a physical style of button. Like the name implies, one you push.

The momentary part tells you what kind of electrical action you get. Momentary tells you it's only connected when pushed. But you also have a locking type.

And as bonus, you also have three time of connections, Normally Open (NO), Normally Closed (NC) and both. This can be for both a locking and a momentary button. Where NO (aka, connection when the button is pushed/locked in) is the most common followed by the NONC (both) type.

And in this case, both are momentary NO push buttons, only different models/sizes.

So yeah, just a bigger surface for you to push...

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thank you for the explanation, this helps me a lot :slight_smile: