Customer Reviews

Delta 40-050 Lectric Air Foot Switch

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As the previous reviewer said, this isn't a momentary switch and it probably wouldn't be what you'd want for a drill press. I'm using it for a table saw and it's working fine for that purpose. You simply step on the bladder to start the saw, then step again to stop. It's big enough and has a long enough tube that you don't have to be very accurate when you're trying to hit it with your foot (important when you're trying to cut the power while keeping your eye on the workpiece.)

The switch is meant to be positioned inside a 3-sided plastic box, probably to help keep it from being turned on accidentally. I found that the box got in my way when I was trying to shut off the saw, so I don't use it. Instead, I keep the saw unplugged when I'm not around it.

When I recieved the switch I was excited because I'd used a similar product and loved it. What the sales literature doesn't tell you is that this is a push on/push off switch, not a momentary switch. I was planning on using it to run my drill press and was most interested in it because I thought that it could switch off more quickly than the two push buttons on the drill press itself. No matter how careful you are drill presses occasionly grab the work piece and fling it and I wanted a way to get away from the press and switch it off as quickly as possible. I was expecting the foot switch to work like a deadman switch where the instant I took pressure off the foot controlling it the circuit would be broken and the drill press would stop. Instead, this switch, once acitivated by momentary foot pressure, stays on by itself until you hit the foot pedal again. This requires a much more concious and deliberate action to turn it off rather than a reflexive one.