ChapStick LED Flashlight

Step 5 Wiring the switch

Scrape any remaining J-B Weld from the terminals of the tactile switch and solder a piece of wire to one end. In the picture shown, I had soldered the wire prior to putting J-B Weld over the switch, but either way will work. Cut a piece of plastic from the "N" battery holder (or anything else you happen to have lying around) and a piece of metal (I used a speaker terminal connector) to solder the other end of the tactile switch to. (You can actually use the bottom of the "N" battery holder for this portion. I messed mine up in the first attempt so I came up with this.) Super-glue the piece of plastic in the center of the leads of the tactile switch, (this will keep the base that the battery sits on from touching the other side of the tactile switch.) Solder the metal piece in place. (The plastic will probably melt a bit, but just make sure it doesn't prevent the bottom of the battery from making contact with metal portion.)

Comments

[aurorab17]

what kind of wire was used in this step?

[BCat]

I used the wire from the "N Battery Holder".