Switches are Clicky; Here's Why

...and I've located a few "silent" mice, as the "tactile click" audibly drives me nuts. :)

Came across a few GE household mercury switches at a thrift store around 2017 to replace the elder "clickers". From full click to NO sound at all. Mercury must've been a test market from the late 70s?? Smooth and quiet.

The audible click of a light switch helps blind people know the lights are on. :)

Well done, informative information.

I also learned why my father didn't want me to play with the lights xD

Alec "Let's do that again" Watson.

Been an electrical maintenance engineer for nearly 20 years but always lean stuff from these videos.

please leave all electrocutions to ElectroBoom, he has the eyebrows for it.

I blew a plug through getting a Samsung plug and plugging it in a Xbox controller

Engineers that want to do the right thing sometime get a surprise.
For example, to turn ON and OFF a brush motor, it appear like a good idea to minimize the arcing on the brush by smoothly increasing the current.
It turns out that brush motor, either DC with permanent magnet or AC with electromagnet, will last much longer when the current appear abruptly.
The mechanical shock and arcing help keep those brushes ready to make better contact.

So what’s up with all these videos being proceeded by Michael Doomberg political ads?

My house has 1 of those loud clacky switches but it dosent run a single light... it runs all the outlets in our living room, we run several kilowatts through it on a regular basis and it's always fine, it too has probably been in use since the 50s

I thing YOU"RE kindof a clicky switch

I have safe plug sockets! 😄😄

Air is pretty good.

“But why so clicky clacky”

Anyone remember the rumour it costs more every time you flick the switch.. Like it's better to keep it obit longer rather than hitting it off the back on soon after..

......7 minutes of bullshit to learn that the clicking sound a switch makes is from the speed of the connectors i feel cheated

Fun fact I learned recently: The Nintendo Switch's joycons click because a prototype that used magnets made a nice clicky sound that they wanted to keep. :D

Look at Mr. Fancypants over here with his snap on faceplates while I'm stuck with screw on faceplates

Honestly microwave switches today are affordable, reliable and quite frankly sci-fi cool(which is kinda like normal cool but for a limited group of people).
Why are we still flicking mechanical switches like assholes?

Why am I not a normal person and move the switch really slowly so it doesn't make the noise? Why?

A swich is a gay person that... No...

thank you you learn me something new today :D

12:27 you should go to a dermatologyst

German ones aren't clicky

I wish he would digress more. He touches on stuff I’m interested in but doesn’t make videos on those topics and says it goes beyond that video.... okay. Cool but make a full video!

Oh so that's why I shouldn't flicker switches.

what about lights that fade

My dumbass was like: It's so blind people know if the lights are on or not

Why don't US power outlets have switches on them?

I am so sick of Big Electric lying to me about the nature and function of switches! Practically every other damned day there's another switch click related scandal all over YouTube, and I for one have just had ENOUGH.

This channel is a goldmine.

Say watt?
Electricity when you've pulled the plug: "Dang that's thicc"
Also what I've learned from the video: Punch the switch. Or when you use it normally and somebody is like "STOP CLICKING SO HARD" like... bruh...

Can you do a video non "why light switches turn light up, downward position" in the UK? Since I moved here (12 years) I can't get used to it fully.

I love these videos. I have an insatiable desire to learn and these videos are facisnating

5:00
1. Yes very stupid
2. Those wire connections give my poor electrician in trainings heart a yank

I knew the info before I clicked on the video but I am still amazed at how informative and yet simple this video is.
Shows that research has been done and yet the information was not over complicated. 10/10 would watch again.

Yes thanks YouTube this is exactly what i wanted to watch

Simple. The designers were clearly epic gamers and wanted tactile feedback on everything

I thought this video talks about why Nintendo switch have that click sound as their trademark brand sound

this is Vsauce5

So which one is the click and which one is the clack? Which direction makes the click sound I mean?

Anyone notice that the comments has been moved on mobile???? Or it just me

"Nothing is a perfect insulator"...
This is the best nerd pun I've heard this year xD
I guess space void is nothing, indeed...

I think debouncing would be needed regardless of clickiness.

0:04 is that a jacksfilms reference?

Lmao I like the little clicky sound. ADHD GOOO