Re: Can anyone tell me how the Gaggia Baby power button is wired up?

Randy G. responds:
many switches are so perversely designed and assembled
that opening them showers theroom with little springs and
things and yields little to no evidence of how they worked.

I don't know this particular switch, but I do know that Gaggia prefers
rocker switches, and I studied one of theirs before.

the new switch is evidently different from the old one, and
breaking apart, or even opening the new one would make little
sense.

Judging from Cordo's report, the new switch's output terminals are the
same as the original's. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so confident
about the first replacement attempt. I never suggested that he break or
open the replacement part. Please retract that part of your response.

Why is testing for continuity of contacts with an ohm meter
difficult or complicated?

I said it was too complicated, i.e. more complicated than necessary.

At least to say, my approach sounded sensible when I typed it...

It still does ... my point is that the old switch can be analyzed to
discover how it worked, and that this information should quickly lead
to a solution. There's no need to understand the entire circuit, just
the part that's changing.

More bluntly, his old switch is broken, so he has nothing to lose by
trying to dissect it. The threat of spring showers shouldn't faze him.


Felix

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