Has anyone ever experienced problems with using toggle switches for digital inputs? THere are some toggle switches I like but their current ratings (5-15A) seems rather high so if dry switching is ever a proble, it's going to be one here.
As long as you switch a mA or so at a few volts, I don't think you'll have a problem, especially if the switches has never been used to switch high currents.
Those larger toggle switches are designed to smack their contacts together with quite a lot of force, so they should be pretty immune to dry switching problems (if they are new as crutschow already said).
My question is about dry switching and not bounce. I suppose the first sentence of my first post was a bit vague, but the second one should have made things specific (and the thread title too).
As an addendum to my previous post, if the load is very small (such as a CMOS gate) then you should add a resistor to always have a mA or more through the contacts to minimize any dry switch problems.