5 best touch switches

Touch switch­es make it eas­i­er to con­trol the light­ing in your home. The mar­ket offers inter­est­ing mod­els of switch­es that can be con­trolled with a remote con­trol, touch or even voice. Below is a rank­ing of the top five touch switch­es for the home for 2022.

How to choose a good touch switch

To choose a con­ve­nient and suit­able switch, you need to deter­mine the func­tion­al­i­ty of the device. This will allow you not to over­pay for unnec­es­sary options.

When choos­ing a mod­el, the fol­low­ing cri­te­ria are tak­en into account:

1. Prin­ci­ple of oper­a­tion. Capac­i­tive type switch­es respond to touch. They are installed instead of stan­dard switch­es and the light is con­trolled by light touch­es of the touch pan­el. The way the switch­es equipped with an infrared sen­sor work is based on the recog­ni­tion of the warm radi­a­tion of the body in the elec­tro­mag­net­ic field, so they work with­out con­tact.
2. Num­ber of lines. When choos­ing a touch switch for your home, con­sid­er how many appli­ances will be con­nect­ed to one switch. This is nec­es­sary so that the mod­el match­es the min­i­mum and max­i­mum volt­age para­me­ters (the para­me­ters are indi­cat­ed on the pack­ag­ing or in the descrip­tion).
3. The pres­ence of a timer. Timer switch­es are suit­able for most light­ing fix­tures and help save ener­gy. The built-in timer turns the light­ing on and off at the spec­i­fied time.
4. WiFi sup­port. Smart touch switch­es are com­pat­i­ble with the smart home ecosys­tem.

Using remote-con­trolled switch­es is con­ve­nient for adjust­ing the light of a mul­ti-lev­el stretch ceil­ing, LED strip and sconces.

When choos­ing a switch, pay atten­tion to man­u­fac­tur­eron which the qual­i­ty of the prod­uct direct­ly depends. Study the reviews of peo­ple who have already bought this prod­uct in order to bet­ter under­stand the qual­i­ty of the select­ed mod­el.

The best touch switches

Below is a top of the stan­dard touch switch­es that will replace con­ven­tion­al key switch­es.

1. MiniTiger FF-S-002GR

The styl­ish MiniT­iger FF-S-002GR switch will suc­cess­ful­ly fit into the mod­ern inte­ri­or of the house. The sen­sor of the device is sen­si­tive, reacts to light touch­es even with wet hands. The top pan­el is made of water­proof fire-resis­tant glass, there­fore it reli­ably pro­tects the switch from mois­ture, tem­per­a­ture and mechan­i­cal dam­age. At night, the sen­sor is illu­mi­nat­ed.

MiniT­iger FF-S-002GR is easy to install in a stan­dard sock­et. Among the short­com­ings, it is not­ed that the device only responds to an exact hit on the sen­sor, the rest of the pan­el does not per­ceive touch.

Pros:

• con­ve­nient to mount;
• Beau­ti­ful design.

Minus­es:

• lim­it­ed sen­sor.

Cus­tomer Reviews

Alexan­der Ch. Cool switch. Very com­fort­able, I use the third month with­out prob­lems. I rec­om­mend to buy.

Ilya Not a draw­back, a fea­ture: get­ting into it — into the touch key — is more dif­fi­cult than into the large phys­i­cal but­ton of a mechan­i­cal switch.
You just can’t turn it on with­out look­ing at it or turn it on the wrong way)

2. Bingoelec S1-101

The Bin­go­elec S1-101 switch is mount­ed in a stan­dard sock­et box. The switch, like the pre­vi­ous mod­el, is equipped with one touch but­ton for on/off con­trol. The sen­si­tive sen­sor reacts to touch­es even in gloves. The mod­el is cov­ered with tem­pered glass, and just like the MiniT­iger FF-S-002GR, it is resis­tant to scratch­es and chips. Out­side, the body of the switch is met­al. The sen­sor is illu­mi­nat­ed in red when on and blue when off.

Advan­tages:

• styl­ish appear­ance;
• easy to install and use;
• the glass pan­el is scratch-resis­tant.

No defi­cien­cies found.

Cus­tomer Reviews

Name hid­den I did­n’t even know these switch­es exist­ed! I real­ly liked the switch. I advise every­one!

Timur. For the mon­ey, the qual­i­ty is sur­pris­ing­ly much high­er!
Two light­ing modes.

3. MiniTiger FF-S-001W-White

This mod­el of the touch switch, just like the pre­vi­ous ones, is installed in a stan­dard sock­et, the switch size is 86 mm * 86 mm * 35 mm. Instal­la­tion of MiniT­iger FF-S-001W-White is easy even for non-pro­fes­sion­als. Instal­la­tion does not require a neu­tral wire. The max­i­mum pow­er is 3–300 watts, and the max­i­mum cur­rent is 10 A. The smart touch switch is com­pat­i­ble with var­i­ous light­ing fix­tures.

The sen­sor has a high sen­si­tiv­i­ty, so the light­ing is easy to con­trol. The pan­el is made of fire-resis­tant durable glass resis­tant to dam­age.

Advan­tages:

• no neu­tral wire need­ed;
• sen­si­tive sen­sor.

No defi­cien­cies found.

Cus­tomer Reviews

Mikhail Teterin A good switch, with a con­nec­tion kit and screws and a capac­i­tor and even instruc­tions. Rec­om­mend sell­er and prod­uct

Serg Evdoki­mov Com­plete with instruc­tions in Russ­ian, there was also a capac­i­tor in case the LED lamps them­selves light up or blink … for­tu­nate­ly, the capac­i­tor was not use­ful, the switch with LED lamps works flaw­less­ly … I took 620r in Feb­ru­ary 22.

4. MiniTiger FF-S-001GR

The styl­ish design of the MiniT­iger FF-S-001GR touch switch will fit well into the inte­ri­or in gray tones. The touch switch is installed in stan­dard sock­ets. MiniT­iger FF-S-001GR can be con­nect­ed to sev­er­al devices at once. The touch sen­sor is sen­si­tive and quick­ly responds to touch. Just like the mod­els described above, the sen­sor responds even to the touch of wet fin­gers. Equipped with a back­light, when off, a weak blue col­or is lit, when on, it is bright red.

The switch comes with a resis­tance block that will help elim­i­nate flick­er­ing and oth­er light­ing mal­func­tions. But accord­ing to cus­tomer reviews, in most cas­es, the light­ing works prop­er­ly.

Advan­tages:

• styl­ish switch design;
• ease of instal­la­tion;
• sen­si­tive sen­sor.

No defi­cien­cies have been iden­ti­fied.

Cus­tomer Reviews

Yuri T. Con­ve­nient, high-qual­i­ty switch, ease of instal­la­tion.

Yakov Ivanovich A good switch, one might say almost an ele­ment of decor, fits per­fect­ly into the inte­ri­or.

5. MiniTiger FF-S-003GR-Grey

Mod­el MiniT­iger FF-S-003­GR-Grey is a stan­dard touch switch. Unlike pre­vi­ous mod­els, MiniT­iger FF-S-003­GR-Grey is equipped with three touch but­tons, so you can con­nect more light­ing fix­tures to it.

The top pan­el is made of tem­pered glass, which is not afraid of dam­age — scratch­es and chips. The touch but­tons are back­lit, the sen­sors are high­light­ed in red when on and blue when off. Soft blue back­light does not inter­fere at night. Accord­ing to cus­tomer reviews, the sen­sor is very sen­si­tive and eas­i­ly responds to touch.

Advan­tages:

• the pres­ence of three touch but­tons;
• resis­tance of the pan­el to dam­age;
• switch design.

Flaws:

• the back­light of the sen­sor can quick­ly break down.

Cus­tomer Reviews

Name hid­den They look very aes­thet­i­cal­ly pleas­ing. When off, the blue light is very calm and does not inter­fere at night.

lleett1 A very won­der­ful touch switch. The capac­i­tor (includ­ed) must be installed. After the key­board — quite unusu­al … just a light touch of the glass