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Single-pole, single-throw, medium-duty toggle switch. Internal copper contacts carry up to 20-amp current loads.
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Hey everybody, Ryan here at etrailer. Today we're gonna be checking out and showing you how we hooked up the Pollak medium duty toggle switch. So the toggle switch is a really simple electrical component. You know this one's gonna be a single pole, single throw so you just have on off for one thing you're trying to power up and you can use this for a lot of different stuff. Being that it's medium duty it's gonna be able to handle 20 amps, which is quite a bit but you can use it for lights, radios, whatever you're trying to turn off and on essentially. And that's exactly what I did here today on my boat.
I hooked up some headlights, some LED lights on the front and actually just replaced my old momentary horn switch 'cause my original horn quit working. It's really expensive. I ain't gonna bother with it. So I utilized that wiring that was already there to power up my lights. So I need a toggle switch like this and this one worked out really well and will allow me to turn them off and on.
As far as you know the quality of this, it feels good in your hand, there's a little weight to it. Don't feel cheap by any means. You throw the switch, feels tight and everything else like that. You have brass terminals where you'll hook your wires up to. And I do like how they give you that on off face plate there.
Just a nice touch. You can use it if you want or you don't have to use it. So completely up to you. We do get a lot of questions, people wondering about the little rubber boots that go over the switch. You have the one that covers it completely like that.
And I'm actually gonna use this for my own just to keep the weather and stuff off it. And then there's some half ones too that you can push through there and do that. This one is definitely tight but it will work and you can thread it on there. So if that's something you're interested in, you can always grab those boots here at etrailer. You get some people asking about dimensions to make sure it'll fit with their particular application. So we'll go over a few measurements here. In terms of the length of it this way, it's gonna be about 1 1/8 of an inch roughly. We go from just the body of the switch there, it's gonna be about 5/8. If you add the terminals that come down off of it, that's gonna be about an inch. And as far as the width here, that also looks like it's gonna be just under 5/8 of an inch. Other than that at the end of the day, a good general purpose switch. It's gonna work for a lot of different stuff. And in terms of getting these hooked up pretty easy. You just got two wires you need to hook up and mount this up, but we'll go ahead, put it up, hook it up on this boat here today and hopefully that'll give you some direction. To get the switch installed, everyone's setup is gonna be a little bit different but for the most part it's gonna be straightforward. You'll have two wires that you need to hook up and a spot to mount up the switch. In our case, since we're just replacing an existing switch everything's really easy. You don't really have to route or run any wires or drill any holes or anything since we already have it like I said, existing in our switch panel. But with that said we're gonna be working right here in this area. First going to kind of prep our switch I guess you could say. So there's a locking ring on it that'll actually secure it to our panel but we'll take that off and set it to the side. And then we have this on off placard here too, which we'll take off. And on the bottom there's gonna be a groove here, a keyway where that placard goes. So when we do mount this up eventually we want this to be facing down if of course if you want the off position to be downward. So just keep that in mind. But then if we look at the backside of the switch we're gonna have our terminals here and there's just some screws. Pull them out. And I'm gonna take my existing wiring and hook it up. So these are gonna need small ring terminals like that to get this hooked up. You can always grab them at etrailer if you don't have them. And just from knowing in the past I'm gonna put this wire here. I'll take our screw. Pretty small here. Get our screw in there, tighten it down, connect that ring terminal to the post there. And I wanna mention if you go to get this all hooked up and you test it and whatever you're trying to power isn't correct. So what I mean by that, if you go to turn it on and whatever you're trying of power actually turns off and vice versa, you could just take the wires that you have them hooked up and switch terminals. So you can take this one put up here and that'll correct it. So just something if you run into that. But we'll go ahead and do the same exact thing here with our other terminal to get this wire hooked up. Now we can take our switch and push it through the opening in my panel here and get it positioned how I want it. We'll take our on off indicator, slide that in place, then simply take the nut and tighten it down. That done. Good idea to test it, make sure it's working properly. So I'll turn my master power on and in off position my lights are not turned on but when we push it up we should get power to them. And that'll finish up our look at of the Pollak medium duty toggle switch.
Average Customer Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (18 Customer Reviews)
Single-pole, single-throw, medium-duty toggle switch. Internal copper contacts carry up to 20-amp current loads.I needed a heavy duty switch to turn 12v power off to my RV refrigerator and etrailer had the answer and part number making my decision and purchase quick and easy!
Installed outdoors... Under a vehicle chassis and still works great.
Have not got anything installed yet but have had a great experience with etrailer great and very informative and easy web page, everything arrived well packaged. I will continue to order from them.
Great item .. purchased multiple times .. no issues
Good switch .. heavy duty
We love all the products we have purchased. Well designed and very easy to install.
Not much to say....it works nice and smooth between off and on.
My whole order came in quick and all seems to be great quality. Can't wait to get everything installed
Simple...exactly what I expected.
Does what I needed
still working good
Gets the job done
Good fit
Good product
It's a switch. looks good.
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4/28/2022
Good product .. Pollak makes dependable items .. going to buy additional .. delivery fast