<div dir="ltr">Yes but will Digikey subject your $5 microswitch to 20g of abuse before shipping it to you?  I guess that's where the extra $50 goes, though it seems like you could get nearly the same result for a lot less by carefully choosing your shipping option.  UPS seems to be providing free environmental vibration testing on most of my packages of late.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 10:39 PM, Bruce Perens via Ground-Station <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ground-station@lists.openresearch.institute" target="_blank">ground-station@lists.openresearch.institute</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">While you<span> </span></span><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">can<span> </span></i><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">purchase every part of a Cubesat, I found the $55 price for this Cherry E62-10H microswitch humorous. It's</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);float:none;display:inline"> $5.18 quantity 1 at Digikey</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">: </span><a href="http://www.pumpkinspace.com/store/p180/CubeSat_Kit_Separation_Switch.html" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">http://www.pumpkinspa<wbr>ce.com/store/p180/CubeSat_Kit_<wbr>Separation_Switch.html</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><div><br><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_7926769928387658130gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Bruce Perens K6BP - Standards committee chair, license review committee member, Open Source Initiative<div>President, Open Research Institute</div></div></div>
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