Push Button Switches

Push button switches, also known as push switches, pushbuttons, momentary switches, or latching switches, are one of the most common types of electrical switches used in the market today. These versatile components are used in a wide range of applications, from everyday household appliances to industrial machinery.

RS Australia stocks push button switches with fast delivery. Available in momentary, latching and illuminated formats, including IP65 and IP67 rated units for panel-front use, sourced from leading brands like TE Connectivity, Eaton, Schurter, and many more.

Types of Push Button Switches

RS Australia stocks a comprehensive range of push button switches tailored to diverse control panel layouts, operational modes, and industrial environments:

• Momentary Push Button Switches: Operates via a spring-return mechanism that maintains the active state only while compressed, making them the standard choice for start buttons, jog controls, and reset functions.
• Latching Push Button Switches: Maintains its new position after being pressed and requires a second press to un-latch, making them ideal for functions that hold state without a controller, such as local isolation, lighting circuits, and machine mode selection.
• Illuminated Push Button Switches: Integrates an LED light source directly within the actuator to provide immediate visual status indication, eliminating the need for a separate pilot light and saving valuable control panel space.
• Modular Panel Cutout Configurations: Offers standard 22mm panel cutouts for universal industrial applications, alongside compact 16mm and 19mm variants designed for space-constrained operator fascias and control boxes.
• Varied Contact Configurations: Features modular normally open (NO) and normally closed (NC) contact blocks that can be stacked or combined (1NO+1NC) to match complex electrical circuit designs.
• Environmental IP Ratings: Includes high-ingress models rated up to IP65 and IP67 to ensure long-term mechanical reliability in dusty, wet, or heavy washdown environments.
• Diverse Mounting Profiles: Provides robust panel-mounted switches for industrial control stations, alongside surface-mounted units and PCB-mounted push buttons for electronic circuit boards.

Industrial Applications of Push Button Switches

RS Australia supplies industrial-grade push button switches tailored to the precise specifications of control panel builders, machine builders, and process plant maintenance teams:

• Control Panel Building & Assembly: Serves as the primary application for new panel builds and retrofits, allowing builders to select precise panel cutout sizes, IP ratings, and stacked contact block configurations to match strict client drawings.
• Specialised Machine Building: Integrates directly into machine-side operator stations alongside emergency stops and interlocks to initiate automated sequences, start conveyors, or trigger robotic cell movements.
• Process Plant Maintenance & Facilities: Provides direct like-for-like replacements across Australian manufacturing and chemical processing plants to repair worn controls, restore IP-rated panel seals, and maintain operational uptime.
• Mining & Heavy Resource Extraction: Utilises high-impact, sealed push button assemblies and emergency stop switches to deliver intuitive, heavy-duty machine control under severe dust and vibration conditions associated with mining operations.
• Commercial Signalling & Access Control: Employs illuminated push buttons and flush-mounted switches within building management, alarm systems, and security stations to provide clear visual status feedback to operators.

Ordering Push Button Switches From RS Australia

RS is a supplier and distributor of push button switches in Australia, stocking pushbuttons across actuator colours, contact configurations, cutout diameters and mounting types so a procurement team can source the exact specification a project calls for. These are sourced directly from leading brands like TE Connectivity, Schneider Electric, Eaton and many more, so every unit ships as genuine stock under full manufacturer warranty. Orders can be placed online or by phone, email and fax, with bulk and project orders accommodated at special volume pricing quoted on request.

Related products can go on the same requisition, including emergency stop push buttons, general purpose enclosures and DIN rail terminal blocks, making RS a one-stop procurement source for a complete panel assembly.

Delivery Information for Australia

RS delivers push button switches nationwide. Orders with a business account enjoy free delivery on online orders over $60 (excluding GST), and locally stocked items ordered before 5pm AEST are delivered the next working day.

Delivery Charges on Online Orders

• Business Accounts (with a valid ABN or an RS credit account):
  • Delivery is free on orders over $60 (excluding GST)
  • A $10 delivery charge applies to orders under $60 (excluding GST)
• Private and Guest Accounts:
  • Delivery is free on orders over $80 (excluding GST)
  • A $20 delivery charge applies to orders under $80 (excluding GST)

Next Working Day Delivery

• Order locally stocked items before 5pm AEST, Monday to Friday
• Orders placed after 5pm Friday arrive Tuesday

Full delivery terms, including options, exclusions and fees, are set out on the RS Australia delivery page.