Free rotary cord switch for your lamps and stuff.
Just a detail you can add for more realism in your scenes using lamps and stuff.
https://www.deviantart.com/luqu/art/Switch-Cord-Rotary-V1-776211983
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You know, like this...
Useful and thank you.
Never seen such a thing in real life
Seriously? Hmm, someone find a photo for odastein.
What's the advantage of such a switch over a switch mounted upon an electrically powered device? None, really, beyond visual appeal. I have a lamp or two that work like this.
Sincerely,
Bill
Cord mounted thumbswitches are before your time, odastein. Ha ha!
Indeed, such a switch might be kinda dumb for use on a table lamp, such as the one I show.
But consider a wall mounted lamp that has it's cord dangling down the wall toward the wall socket. The lamp fixture itself is up high on the wall, out of reach. So if the switch were on the lamp, you could not reach the switch. So putting the switch further down the cord, where you can reach it, is a great solution.
Are there any 3D models of such wall mounted lamps? I don't know. But I plan on releasing one in a few months. And I made this switch especially for it, because I searched and found no such switch already available.
To see what I mean, look at the fourth and last promo image for the switch on ShareCG. It shows the wall mounted lamp I plan to realease, and how the lamp can be out of reach, while the switch remains in reach.
https://sharecg.com/v/92817/21/DAZ-Studio/Switch-Cord-Rotary-V1
No. I've seen switchs mounted on a chord. What I never saw is a switch that looks like that (rotary).
Ya. Maybe the rotarys are rare. They was of the 1970's and 1980's, I guess.
And here's my competition in cord mounted switches, a bigger casing with a rocker actuator: https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/max-retro-lamp-switch/539151
These were common back in the 50s, 60s, 70s, and into the 1980s. Then in the 90s they were replacing them with rocker switches.
https://fkmoravacorion.com/lamp-switch/on-off-switches-for-lamp-cords-national-artcraft-pertaining-to-switch-inspirations-8/
https://fkmoravacorion.com/lamp-switch/b-p-lamp-brown-inline-rotary-cord-switch-for-18-2-spt-regarding-designs-11/
http://middlesexhabitatnews.blogspot.com/2013/09/lava-lamp.html
Probably more a matter of country than a matter of timeline, then.
The rotary ones were very common in the USA. Mostly during the 50s - 80s, as hphoenix said. In other countries the wiring tends to be pretty different from US wiring, which makes sense in that it typically runs at either higher voltage, different frequency (i.e. Hertz) or both. And you don;t want to plug stuff designed for 110VAC into a 220VAC cirtcuit unless you were hoping to see fireworks. Hence the physical differences in the outlets and the like. I never would have thought a common switch like this, which was on almost every bedroom lamp in my home growing up, would be exotic in other lands but it makes sense when you think about it.
Switches on cords for lamps are pretty standard here (Netherlands), but I've never seen a rotary one.