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Electrical disconnects needed or can I just solder?
Ed_McCarron:
Fight nice, kids.
With a good crimper, QD's are easy. Soldering is a superior electrical connection, but harder to disassemble. They each have their pros and cons.
Sheesh. You'd think this thread was about LCD vs. CRT.
Knightlore:
Hola, back again.
Well I'm about half way through - it's slow going for me but then this is the first time I've soldered anything EVER. It looks okay (I think) but got a quick question in regard to grounds. I'm wiring up U360's and LED buttons. When I come to the last button is that where the ground ends? Or do I have to then have a wire attatched to that, that will touch something metal?
Edit - while I'm here, save making a new thread. Does it matter what colour wires from the 360 goes to player 1, Player 2 etc? E.g: Can I use Brown wire (button 1) for player 1 or does it have to be for the control panel?
I plan on having P1+P2 on one of the 360's and Coin button on the second player.
Knightlore:
Bump, anyone?
TopJimmyCooks:
using the u360 harness in input mode, the black wire is the ground or common, and your button ground should chain from button to button common terminal and then connect to this black wire.
The button #'s don't really matter on the other color wires, you will reprogram them in your emulator anyway. but the chart is here if you want it http://www.ultimarc.com/ultrastik_inst.html
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Nephasth on August 11, 2011, 12:03:12 pm ---I don't see how. To crimp a terminal onto the end of a wire takes less time and is easier than soldering a wire to a microswitch terminal. And I'm pretty sure sliding a QD on and off a terminal is much faster than desoldering and resoldering. I just got done wiring my CPs and to cut, strip, and crimp each wire end, I was averaging about 12 seconds each for 172 wire ends.
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Work on pins for a while and you get really good at soldering leads. You can solder them upside down, sideways, in tight spaces, in a box, with a fox, on a train, in the rain...