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Originally Posted by joecvt
When we push it in and see nothing happening right away, we tend to push it in even harder thinking it wasn't pushed it hard enough to begin with. This harder pressure puts more stress on the switch causing it eventually to fail. Not to say that it is all human error (the button could be more improved) but we may be putting more than designed stress on the button. Like mentioned earlier, this button style is used in many other designs so why is it only failing in the way we use it?
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This may be the reason for the failures. The two pairs of buttons appear to use the same exact circuit board, but nobody complains about their brightness buttons failing.