I have been wondering why asian manufacturers have inverted the so-natural concept of the Click switch, that "naturally" has, so far, turned on and then clicked.
Their light clicks first, then turn on.
For over a year I have been wondering why. Finally, I grasped the concept.
A forward clickie switch had to win the resistance of the spring before it clicks. It means that the spring has to have enough dynamics to push the contacts together after it has clicked in place, as well as to accomodate the "overshoot" that occur before the contacts clicks in place.
A spring not properly dimensioned, or with the wrong mechanical properties, makes a very bad forward clickie switch. The same spring would make an acceptable reverse clickie.
That is. The reverse clickie is the result of a cheap way of thinking.
I have been getting mad, lately, with the switch of the Q3. Historically, it was a reverse clickie. Now Nuwai has replaced the switch with a TACTICAL switch, which I understood to be a standard forward clickie switch.
So I bought two more Q3s, with the idea to use them as they are, stock.
In the reality, Nuwai has "modified" the reverse clickie. It is still a reverse clickie as it is mechanically built, but has an ADDITIONAL leaf contact inside, that closes when you start pushing in the switch. So you have:
PUSH - ON - CLICK - OFF - ON AGAIN. The same happens when you do the opposite cycle, with the result that if you turn the Q3 on and off rapidly, it looks like a strobe light. I felt fooled.
So I ripped off two switches I had from some old SL TTs, and I now have two two-stage Q3s. They are "normal" reverse switches, that I can live with. I can't, with TACTICAL STROBE switches from SING-FAI (It is the factory of the new switches).
Regards
Anthony