Learn About the Single-Pole, Single-Throw Switch for Circuit Bending

Video Transcript

"AMANDA CLAIRE: All right, your momentary push button switch, like this one, or your basic on/off switch like this one, these are both called single-pole-single-throw switches. They're single pole switches because they only have set of posts, one set of contacts there. I mean, it's a set of two but you know, you put one wire on one and one wire to the other, so it's one pole and this one it's a single throw because it's either off or it's on, right? So that's one thing you can throw it to. Same thing with this, but this one stays in position, right, this on/off switch stays in position when you throw it. So, one way you can tell a single pole, single throw switch and all of these are, are they generally only have two terminals on them, right? So all of these, sort of 5 switches here have got the 2 contacts on them. So these are single-pole-single-throw switches. They're basically used as on/off switches and when I say on/off, I don't necessarily mean on/off in terms of power, but use it with a bend, either that bend is active or it's not active, okay? So that's when you use a single-pole-single-throw switch."