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Need some major help with my coin door
sandman235:
Well I am finally getting around to trying it again and I think I F'ed up again and shorted the gold pieces. Could I use the start and select buttons as well? I need to finish this with in 4 hours :timebomb:
HaRuMaN:
Yes, you should be able to map any button...
Donkbaca:
You can use any button. I would suggest cleaning off that solder on those shorted buttons because if you plug in the pad, they will be constantly registering.
Soldering to those gold pads is a little tricky. I would hold the soldering iron to the gold pieces and heat them up first, then tin your wires and then solder gold to tin.
sandman235:
--- Quote from: Donkbaca on August 25, 2011, 02:50:46 pm ---You can use any button. I would suggest cleaning off that solder on those shorted buttons because if you plug in the pad, they will be constantly registering.
Soldering to those gold pads is a little tricky. I would hold the soldering iron to the gold pieces and heat them up first, then tin your wires and then solder gold to tin.
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So, from what I am gathering the current runs through the solder? So by saying tin my wires does that mean I can wrap the solder around the wire then just connect the solder to the PCB board? I always thought the wire had to be directly touching the board. Excuse my noobness.
Vigo:
The wire doesn't need to directly touch. Solder is just metal that melts easily, and is conductive.