The Power Switch

[sporeboy]

on the rip out the batteries opshon that seams fine to me

 

[closetwam]

Btw, don't be a grammar Nazi
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I was being a Spelling Nazi, not a Grammar Nazi.

Don't be a "Nazi" Nazi! =D

For the slow people like me: what the heck is a springy momentary switch and how would you describe its travel?

A momentary switch is a basic push-button switch. Springy probably means it uses a spring-like material to "unpush" the switch. Probably the same as the power switch on a laptop.

 

[mali]

i lost it is it a temporally signal switch or a hard SPTT switch?

Urjamans quote should explain it, no?

 

[laurencevde]

The chip contains a watchdog timer. That's a little piece of hardware that a userspace-daemon must "ping" once every minute, or it'll reboot the device. Crashing-problems "solved". Practically no need for a hard-poweroff switch.