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HIROSE CHERRY M8 Series Keypad Switch Assemby (Used-Tested)

Hirose

$2.00
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Used
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Cherry switches (Hirose) are very well considered Japanese made switches, these are from the mid 1990's M8 series NOT the MX type used in professional/consumer and gaming keyboards.

These switches are extremely difficult to find, I am offering these for those who need to restore a failed switch in older Japanese keypads - usually found in Japanese test equipment, data entry keypads and some musical equipment of the day.

 

Hirose switch

Brand: Cherry

M8 series

Mount: 2x PCB pins plus two locating plastic pins

Body colour: Black

Body material: plastic

Stamped identification on the switch body top

HIROSE

CHERRY

On the underside of the switch is stamped a diode symbol, no LED is fitted on this switch although I have others advertised separately which do have a green chip LED fitted

 

Electrical function: Push On Release Off

Tactile "feel": very smooth plunger operation

Complete sealed - no internal access unless you wish to destroy the switch!

 

Top fitting: this is NOT the cross style fitting but a slot. Normal keyboard caps will not fit this switch properly.

I do have a number of suitable top caps, removed from the test equipment I have recently "parted out" - there is a separate advertisement for these top caps.

Mounts direct onto the PCB, 2x holes for the electrical connections and two holes for the locating pins.

 

Switch body dimensions: 13mm x 14mm x 8mm height (off the PCB)

Switch plunger: 5mm normal 3mm fully pushed down

 

Carefully removed from the original test equipment keypad PCB - NO pins are damaged, excess solder cleaned off! NO heat damage to the switch

To be quite sure, I have tested each and every switch

 

Extremely high open resistance and very, very low "ON" resistance

 

Quantity price discounts apply to this component

1 - 9     $2 each

10 - 19 $1.50 each

20+      $1.00 each

These discounts are automatically applied at the checkout

 

Supplied sealed in plastic

 

Tested as described in the description This item is not returnable, used but tested