WIRING JOYSTICKS TOGETHER

[Kevo!]

Hello All,

I have an issue that I've been trying to workout, but seem to have a lot of trouble figuring out.

I am trying to wire SANWA Joysticks with a 4 way joystick but the SANWA parts use totally different parts???

Like - I would look at wiring diagrams for linking Player 1's joystick and buttons 1 and 2 to 4way joystick and fire 1 and fire 2, and I notice that the switches used for the HAPP parts have 3 lugs - NO, NC, and Common.

BUT on the SANWA buttons there are only 2 Lugs one for signal and one for ground.

Also on the SANWA joysticks there are switches with no lugs and connected to a board the has 5 wires coming from it - up, down, left, right, and ground.

QUESTION! - How would you wire a control Panel with...

3 Joysticks (2 being Sanwa 8-way and 1 being any brand 4-way.)

24 Push buttons - 8 action buttons per player - 3 per player buttons (start,coin,escape) - 2 fire buttons for 4-way

Using an IPAC2 or.... (whatever you guys think)

Sounds like a CISCO test

ANY IDEAS!? 

- KEVO

[BobA]

Simple to wire if you have 5 wires.  The 4 wires go to the appropriate terminals on the ipac and the ground wire goes to the ground on the ipac.   If you have a regular switch with no nc and ground then the no goes to the ipac and the gound is daisychained to the common connectors on the switch.   If you only have 2 contacts on a switch one is ground and one goes to the input of the ipac.

[Kevo!]

I understand that and sorry if my question didn't make sense to you... But what I'm looking to do is daisy chain the 4way to the 8 way SANWA as well as push buttons 1 and 2 to player one (SANWA) push buttons 1 and 2....

[BobA]

You can daisy chain all the switches as long as you identify the ground for the daisy chain.  In the case of 2 contact switches it does not matter what is chosen as ground.