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local Asteroids cab. / connection methods for swappable CP's
TopJimmyCooks:
this is what I want.
several ganged together would be even better.
the fingers would land nicely on a 1/4" pitch screw terminal strip. I've found some very small stuff like the cell phone ports, but nothing of decent size.
Vigo:
Looking for a good retailer for pogo pin connectors is hard, I tried before. I think I did end up finding a few when it came to motherboard connectors, but it took a lot of searching.
I remember I did suggest on that original thread to use something like edge connectors, like how a SNES cartridge pops into the system. Wire the controls to a flat edge card, and have a connector mounted on the cabinet. I think it would be cheap and easy, but you would need to make some guide when it slides in to prevent the card popping in at a bad angle.
Nephasth:
Wonder if Molex makes anything that would be suitable? I'll have to chaeck into that...
TopJimmyCooks:
--- Quote from: Vigo on September 13, 2011, 03:33:48 pm ---Looking for a good retailer for pogo pin connectors is hard, I tried before. I think I did end up finding a few when it came to motherboard connectors, but it took a lot of searching.
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They're out there, made by Mill-max, etc. I didn't price the PCB sizes but the larger sizes, with minimum qty's, shipping, etc. were going to be a $50-60 order from digi key. I basically decided i'll keep plugging/unplugging usb and rj45s. I don't do it that often anyway. It's worth maybe $20 to me right now, if it's easy to implement. If I get extremely low on projects I might look into pogo's again.
Nephasth should be off the red phone with the CEO of Molex here in a minute, maybe he'll have them whip up something proto for me. (and a $69 tool to go with it!)
Nephasth:
--- Quote from: TopJimmyCooks on September 13, 2011, 04:03:05 pm ---Nephasth should be off the red phone with the CEO of Molex here in a minute, maybe he'll have them whip up something proto for me. (and a $469 tool to go with it!)
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Fixed. Sent you a PM.