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Okay, we've done our push button switch and we've done our slider switch
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Now we want to move on to trying our hand in using a rocker switch
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And this is the rocker switch I'll be using. It's just a simple, basic two prong or two lead or two terminal rocker switch
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and this is the rocker here so I'm going to take the slide switch out
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I'm going to go ahead and take this yellow jumper wire out
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and now since these terminals on this rocker switch are a little too big for my
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point or the holes in the breadboard I'm going to have to use for demonstration
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purposes a couple of these flexible jumper wires I'm going to use a black one
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and connect it to in line with the resistor lead on this side And I going to take this orange one and I going to connect it in line with this yellow jumper wire
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So technically right now, these two jumper wires could be like a switch because once I make contact
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with them you can see the LED lights up but this is not what we want to do we
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want to hook up our rocker switch here now I can't connect the two ends of these
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jumper wires directly to this rocker switch unless I had four arms four
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arms and hands so I'm gonna use these alligator jumper wire The wires are clips, alligator clips
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On each end, it's just one, I know it's hard to see
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but it's just one, each one is one wire and an alligator clip connected to each end of the wire One is black and one is red I going to connect one end of the black alligator clip to the black jumper wire and I going to connect one end of the red alligator clip to the
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orange wire. Now we have two ends open here, a red end and a black end
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Now I'm going to connect a black end to one terminal of the rocker switch
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And I'm going to connect the other red end, the other red alligator clip, to the other terminal of the rocker switch
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So right now I have this red alligator clip goes all the way around and connects to my orange
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clip or my orange jumper wire which is connected to the yellow jumper wire which is
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connected to the positive power supply and I have this other black I have this
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black alligator clip going all the way around and connecting the other end connecting to this black jumper wire which is connected to the resistor
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So now, since my circuit is complete, if I press this rocker switch, the LED comes on and off
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So it's kind of hard to see in the camera because these wires are so long
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The connection is complete by coming through the positive power supply, through to the yellow jumper wire, through this orange jumper wire
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to this red alligator clip, and it goes along and goes out of camera view
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but it comes back around up to this red alligator clip. to this terminal of this rocker switch
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Then we have this black alligator clip going down and around outside the camera view
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and comes back up through this side of this alligator black alligator clip
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to this black jumper wire to the resistor through the LED and back to ground
