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    anybody...I'm trying to find out where I can buy these...
    Like internet wise...

    lol...thanks for your help!

    ps-yeah...i'm talking about the red button
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    Default Re: TOTALLY random...where do you buy these?

    It's called an e-stop button if you search e-stop button you will find plenty of options for purchase. I believe it is also called a mushroom cap button that should get you some results also. Cutler-Hammer is the brand I have used.

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    Default Re: TOTALLY random...where do you buy these?

    Ok yeah...I know what it is...
    I know its functions, and all that.

    What I was looking for was a brand, like THIS exact brand!

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    Default Re: TOTALLY random...where do you buy these?

    OK so I guess that helped???

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    Default Re: TOTALLY random...where do you buy these?

    Grainger has two variations on this mushroom switch.

    Variation 1

    Variation 2
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    YES! I have been on the hunt for these for years...

    Thanks.

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    Actually Grainger has about a zillion (or maybe 100) different mushroom buttons and I am sure that McMaster-Carr has them too. A little searching will turn up enough selection to make your head spin.
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    Good authors too who once knew better words, Now only use four letter words, Writing prose.

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    Yea its cool but its still no Colotran GO button.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gafftapegreenia View Post
    Yea its cool but its still no Colotran GO button.
    It's true - the Colortran Encore go button is massive and loud.
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    Quote Originally Posted by soundlight View Post
    It's true - the Colortran Encore go button is massive and loud.
    Pictures? Nevar seen a 'massive' go button.

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    Hmm, which ONE should I press?

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    Hmm, which ONE should I press?

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    How come light boards don't have keyed switches anymore?
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    Quote Originally Posted by gafftapegreenia View Post
    How come light boards don't have keyed switches anymore?
    For one possible reason, see this thread (today must be Encore Day! ): http://www.controlbooth.com/forums/l...weird-one.html.
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    Quote Originally Posted by icewolf08 View Post
    Actually Grainger has about a zillion (or maybe 100) different mushroom buttons and I am sure that McMaster-Carr has them too. A little searching will turn up enough selection to make your head spin.
    Okay, so I only spent two minutes searching for the switch.
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    I'm jealous. The C'tran Innovator 600 my school uses just has a regular old GO button, not much different than any oher buttons on the board. (Personally, I don't like the board very much.)
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    So...heres a question...

    When wiring an emergency stop button, how (or what device) do you have to use in order to have it trip a secondary circuit?

    For example...in wave pools, they have e stop buttons around the pool. If one is pressed (turning the waves off), you can pull the button back out, but the waves don't turn back on when its pulled out, you have to go turn a key in order to get them to start again. How do you wire this?

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    Easiest way i found to do it is to use a latching relay (just search and see the options) It will maintain its status without coil power until it is manually reset. I don't know what you're doing with this so the options are unlimited. You can build one also out of a standard DPDT relay, but I don't think I can tell you how to on this forum . . . I don't even know if I can tell you it is possible to make one

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    My curiosity may kill me one day, but what are you going to do with this switch?
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    I don't actually plan on building anything (although that could change after all), but I work at a wave pool as a lifeguard and always wondered how the ^%$# those switches work...

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