On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Olin Lathrop wrote: > Tony Smith wrote: >> You'd better let the bike industry know, everyone uses reed switches. > > Definitely not true. I'm sure if I selectively quote you I could also find something that's definitely not true. He did however qualify that statement if you could be bothered to read that far: > Of course 'everyone' means 'nearly everyone' as no doubt there's a few > oddball solutions that are more expensive and don't work any better than a > reed switch that you just might be able to buy. Now don't suggest there are lots of other computers using different solutions out there because you can think of a few - at least some of us are engineers round here, and the most sensible way to quantify this is in terms of what's actually sold rather than because somebody in some shed somewhere makes something (that's a good measure of what's actually in use on people's bikes). I went and checked the most popular mail order site in the UK which sells over 100 different computers - now I can't say I specifically checked every single one, but I'm still fairly sure they all without exception use a reed switch. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist