Membrane Switch Vs. Inlay
| MEMBRANE SWITCH VS. INLAY | ||
|---|---|---|
| Electrical Safety | Low Voltage Operation: 48V | High Voltage Operation: 230V |
| Mechanical Design | Simple | Complicated |
| Assembly | Complete Integration of leds, resistances, diodos, buttons, EMI/RFI/ESD shielding | Difficult to keep the same altitude. Difficult to be parallel. Difficult to center the LED to its window. |
| Cost | Saving cost in mechanical design and work Flexibility in the positioning of the electronics |
Machine work to get the hole for the switches Big electronics to cover all the control surface The electronics have to be positioned in parallel to the inlays |
| Modification | Easy,quick and low cost, only affects the buttons | Difficult and costly to make the modification in mechinal design and PCB |
| Durability | 1 million cycles with Metals Domes 5 million cycles without Metal Domes |
Depends on the quality of the switches, and if there is mechanical structure to transfer the actuation (25,000cycles) |
| Tactil Feedback | Smooth and uniform | Not smooth |
| Small Batch | Low cost | High cost of toolings |
