How to attach a switch?

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Nonsense Man
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How to attach a switch?

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Well there is a circuit that I wired up but I want to control it with a switch and so I got this switch and I was wondering how to do that. Image picture of the circuit
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Post by bacteria »

The switch you show is a momentary switch, so it only works while you are pressing the button. Is this what you wanted?

Yes, always good practice to put a switch on the positive rather than negative terminals.
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Post by Felino »

Er, why? :?
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