There have been an unusually high fail rate on the protege switches unlike the "same" switch that's in the Prodigy.
The Protege's seem a lot less tolerant of shorting, arcing, etc... may have something to do with the Satinless....
I have both (well actually two of each) and the Prodigy switches have never been an issue. I've put at least 5 switches in the Protege's (ordered extra tact switches).
And, we're not talking about 5 volts were saying hitting it at 8.4 - 7.4
That would be my only concern. Switches aren't that hard to replace if you happen to have some.
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