REFLECTOR: Source for LED based annunciator parts

[Brett Ferrell]

Hiroo -

I got the Honeywell Microswitches from FMW Distributors.  They're a little 
pricey, but they're nice.  I worked with Tyler there.

FMW Honeywell page - http://www.fmw411.com/AML%20Catalog.htm
You can check mine out at http://www.velocityxl.com/Electrical.htm

Brett

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Michalk" <michalk at awpi.com>
To: "'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list'" <reflector at tvbf.org>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 10:37 PM
Subject: RE: REFLECTOR: Source for LED based annunciator parts


> Let me clarify.
>
> Identical to each other, not the switch you referenced.
> I wanted all of my switches to be internally lit, no matter if they are on
> or off.  If you go with bi-color LED's, you can wire it up so that 
> pressing
> the switch causes it to change color.  All of my switches are this way 
> that
> drive remote solid state relays.  My critical switches, like magneto,
> starter, etc. are on a sub-panel that I engraved on my machine.  They are
> not internally lit, they are the sturdy toggle type.
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
> Behalf Of Brian Michalk
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 7:32 PM
> To: 'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list'
> Subject: RE: REFLECTOR: Source for LED based annunciator parts
>
>
> Oh yeah.
>
> Those are difficult, if not impossible to find.  They also sell one that 
> is
> exactly identical ... actually IS the switch combination for the ACU
> annunciators.  Expect to pay somewhere between $30 to $50 for that switch.
>
> I did the next best thing, and went with indicators and switches from EAO,
> or NKK.  They are the same size and look identical.
> http://www.newark.com/product-details/text/CD121/5093.html
> http://www.alliedelec.com/catalog/pf.asp?FN=728.pdf
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
> Behalf Of Hiroo Umeno
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 4:20 PM
> To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
> Subject: REFLECTOR: Source for LED based annunciator parts
>
>
>
> Hello folks,
>
>
>
> What have you done for your annunciators on the instrument panels?  Up to
> this point, I had some naked LEDs mounted on the panel through a hole but
> they just look crummy.  I would like to put in annunciators with 
> letterings
> like "DOOR", "SUMP LOW", "SPD BRK" in a cluster above my PFD.  Honeywell
> makes the perfect thing but I cannot seem to find anyone who sell them.
> Mouser, Digikey, etc comes out empty.
>
>
>
> http://content.honeywell.com/sensing/prodinfo/manual/catalog/c30037.pdf
>
>
>
> Does anyone know of a supplier for these (or something similar)?
>
>
>
> Hiroo
>
>
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