Gardner Bender GSW 16 Heavy Duty Electrical Review

This is a very high force, relatively high current switch. You will not accidentally turn it over. If the case it is mounted in is too thin, you will likely bend the case first. Also, the contacts will slam and then jump. You must know about it. With a low signal level, it can be quite loud. If you want it to control the signal level, you need to debounce it. Use a lighter, cheaper switch if you don't need something that heavy. This is the source of most of the negative comments.

The product is fine but the advertising is misleading. The photo shows it was made in the USA, but it's clearly not true. The packaging says Made in Indonesia. If one of the reasons you picked this particular switch was because it was made in the USA, you were scammed like me. I'm sending them back and Revain can keep them in their warehouse until they get rusty as long as they don't fool someone else like I did. I didn't buy it due to the fact that the picture is of the United States, but that

I was reluctant to order this due to complaints about the screw terminals but figured I could get it working. This is required for a simple low voltage project to be able to choose between two power supplies and output to a device. To be clear, I'm specifically talking about an ON/OFF/ON DPDT switch with screw terminals. The reason people are having trouble is that the screw terminals here aren't really designed to wrap wire directly around them. If you plan to use this type of switch, I…