 The great search brought you by Digikey and Ada Fruit every single week. And Lady Ada's a proud engineer and they'll be as you find everything you need to find on digikey.com. Lady Ada, what is the great search that's awake? Okay, so this is a, let me find one second. Terry. Watching. Okay. So we had a question, okay, this is a great example. We had an example. Sorry, let's go to the computer. Sorry. We had someone write in on, I think the comments to this video and they said, hey, I want to get a panel mount button that's like lit up that has latching action where you push it wants to turn it on and push it wants to turn it off. And you can see here, like the button gets indented, it latches in and we call this like a latching button. As compared to a momentary button, which is like a tactile switch where you press it. And then when you release it, it opens up and they were like, it's really tough for me to figure out how to find. I just want to find a panel mount on off switch like this with a, with a press button and maybe, you know, some sort of light in the background to let me know when it's on or off. Can you help me learn how to search it and I was like, that's a great idea. So we do take user requests. So let's show how to go to digikey and find a panel mount switch and one that has latching on off control. All right. So we're at digikey. So let's look for, let's just start with panel mount switch. So we don't have to search panel mount first, but I figure it's a good, it's always give me a good start to what I'm looking for. So there's key lock switches. These are like ones that have locks and there's toggle switches, you know, toggle switches are, you can use them as on off switches and people do, you know, up is on, off is down, like light switches. Locker switches are also always going to latch, right? Because you have to mechanically move them up or down, but this person particularly wanted a push button switch. So push button switches are going to include both momentary and latching. And those are the two kinds. Okay. So first up, let's, of course, only look at active. I mean, there's a lot of products and let's, just because there's so many, let's also only look at in stock and non-marketplace just to, because there's 176,000. So let's pare it down to some reasonable number. Okay. So these are some push buttons. So like you already see, like there's some pretty nice options here, square, red, you know, a PCB mount, lots of panel mounts. So for sure, there's going to be something here. So the first thing that they wanted was, again, that switch function, they don't want it to be like press and then release, which is called momentary, like it's only on when you press it. They want it to hold whatever they press it. And so that's under switch function. And there's, this is very confusing because there's a lot. There's like off momentary and there's off momentary momentary and there's off momentary on and there's off on, off on, on, on momentary, on momentary, off momentary, on, off, like there's all these different types, basically, momentary, when it says momentary, that means whatever is the opposite, like if it's off momentary, it means it's normally off. And when you press it momentarily, it turns on. So let's just show you that even though it's not what this person wanted, this is kind of what most people think of when they think of a switch. So these are push buttons and they don't latch. When you press them, the two contacts connect. And when you release, they disconnect again. So off momentary. And sometimes it's also called SPST NL, normally open. So single pull, single throw. So there's only two contacts, they either touch or they don't. And normally open and when you press, they connect. Okay. So let's turn off that switch function and go back. So what we want is non momentary. We want it to be when you press, it changes. And so we want it to go from off to on. Now you might want to know what's off, on, on. That means that there might be multiple modes or might be like multiple switch connects. This person just wanted on, off, not off, on, and then a different mode. So also there's like, why is there off, on, on, off? Well, you know, maybe it's like, it's indented when it's on or it's indented when it's off. But let's assume that either one of them is okay. So these are the two options. On, on would mean that there's two switch contacts, so SPDT. So go between two different throws, which is also maybe what they want. But again, we're going to go with the simplistic, just on, off, off, on. Okay. So this is rid of the, the momentary contact stuff. Some of these look familiar, like Adafruit stocks, you know, stuff similar to this. This is a nice little gothy switch. It's got an LED illumination ring. That's very nice. This one doesn't. This is a latching push switch from JEDCO. I love JEDCO switches, those are really great. Square ones as well. We wanted one that had an illumination, it had LED. So incandescent is used often, like it's like neon for high voltages, like 120 volts You'll see it often like power distribution strips, you know, you'll have the switch has like a flickering red-orange light that's like an incandescent or neon 120 volt. We want something that's LED. So we're just going to select LED, not incandescent, but let's say any color is fine. Can always be picky later if you want red, green, or blue. Actuator marking. I don't really care about this, but, you know, if you want a power switch labeling on it, that can be, you know, that's a common request. Let's say we want rounded and let's see a couple options. And there's the voltage rating. This person didn't write up and say what voltage rating they want, but of course, if you wanted to run 120 volt or 220 volt power switch, you would select it. But let's look here. Okay. Some nice options. Let's look by pricing. Just let's see. Like, let's get because they were like, oh, I want an inexpensive switch. Oh, so a couple of nice options here. Just a little switch. And then yeah, these are all going to be a couple of amperes. Let's see, LED red. Looks good. This one is kind of nice. This one is your kind of cute looking. This one looks good, too. Fairly inexpensive. These switches, this one has, you know, the illumination within. I will say like, you know, I'm not going to I'm going to pick one. But to be fair, all these are very good, like this one might be a really good option if they want a metal button. But I did kind of like the look of these e-switch buttons. They can do three amps at 125 volts. They have a really they have a nice black plastic, like, you know, rectangular cover. And then you have a lot of space here to drill a hole for them on the bottom. You can barely see it, but there's a plus or minus for the LEDs. And then, you know, the power switch itself available in red, yellow and green. This is the diagram, and then this is the data sheet. And, you know, e-switch is like super reliable. These are going to last many, many, many cycles and be able to handle very high current and have good documentation for all them. And then, of course, if you need slightly different specifications, you can check those out. But this was my pick for the great search. I think this is a good option. So there you go, dear fellow email writer. Lots of switches available. Pick this one, but there's also many more available for under ten bucks. That's a great search.