Hey guys,
Question regarding the wlan switch. I know there are tuts for where to hook everything up via this, but I am looking for an explanation as to HOW it works. From my understanding, the WLAN switch has 3 poles. 1 and 2 when connected complete the wifi circuit and thus turn on the wifi. Pole 3 is a ground/dead pin that is unused. So wifi is not off because 2 and ground are connected but really because 1 and 2 are NOT connected. BUT, if this pole (3) is connected to ground, would'nt it always be connected to ground regardless of whether the switch is connecting 1 and 2 vs 2 and ground?
Furthermore, if you can answer that, I have another (but assuming you answer my first question, this one should be intuitive, im clearly just missing something)
The wlan mod should work exactly the same even if you do not bridge 1 and 2 correct? or no...
EDIT: so I poked around with a multimeter on my GO and turns out the connection to ground is only present when the switch is slide to the wifi off position. Interesting... Not sure what the bridging of the wifi switch is for. Is this simply so you can have wifi on as well as the LEDs? Or is it something more technical where the signal somehow could interfere with teh wifi signal if pins 1 and 2 are not bridged. Again, i never took a circuits class so I'm going off of intuition from my middle school classes over a decade ago lol. I recall something regarding the passage of least resistance? aka in this application, the bridging of pins 1 and 2 could cause the signal to not actually reach the switch? I'm prolly just spewing out retarded info, but hey Im just thinking out loud (while I type)...
If that IS the case, then I would see how the bridging is necessary, if not, then the bridging is simply to have the ability to have the wifi on and leds on as well...
