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Addition or correction:  Be careful what you ask for, if the definitions
are changing!
The confusion could cost you money!

Computer people have taken over a term; for a function that turns off by
repeated button pushing, calling it a function that "toggles".

    But this is different than a toggle switch.
In the old days (1900 to 1990?) the toggle switch was just a switch that
if slowly was moved, would go "over dead center" and quickly switch,
reducing the arcing.
That is/was the toggle mechanism, used as a wall light switch.  Even the
old push button wall switches had a toggle mechanism inside.


There were single throw, center off toggle switches..
There were momentary toggle switches, that is, they switched fast, but
returned if     released; a higher current version of a doorbell switch.
Below, it is a  momentary double throw, center off switch for the car
window, some of which also click as they toggle.

Steve Zielinski wrote:

>
> In this article was the new misuse of the word "toggle. A toggle switch is
> one that has a spring that returns it to a neutral position and usually
> goes in two opposing positions. The switch for an electric window in a car
> is a toggle switch. The word "toggle" has come to be used to describe a
> switch like a light switch or the caps lock, which stay in one mode until
> switch to another mode. This is simply a switch and the caps lock key,
> though resembling a button, functions as a switch. The letter keys act as
> buttons, like a door bell. Neither is a toggle.
>
> Peter Seymour
>

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Will; Amateur Radio call K 2 L B ; Rochester, New York, USA
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