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Idea for a Multi Williams Plus panel.
jimmer:
--- Quote from: 1500points on February 07, 2013, 01:56:57 pm ---Larry DeMar and Eugene Jarvis confirmed the 4 shots in the design. You'd about have to be a hardware guy to decide how fast the inputs could be processed because Williams games have a stand-alone interface card that feeds back to the processor board.
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The fire rate might be limited in the main software, I saw people talking about how many cycles it ignores the reverse button for etc
I could test this by putting a vibrator on the fire button (if I had one), but a software guy might give a definitive answer.
RandyT:
--- Quote from: 1500points on February 07, 2013, 02:53:15 pm ---How do you take apart a microswitch without destroying it.
Ken House said he makes microswitch joysticks silent for playing on his robotron.
He was going to tell me how to do it, but never got around to it.
I'm extremely curious. the micros I have all seem to be heat pressed plastic?
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It depends on the switch. Some are sealed, but most you see nowadays are not. They are usually just two halves which are press fit together.
The Sanwa-type switches have little tabs which allow you to separate them. But once you get into the guts, you have to careful, as the components tend to be under spring tension. It's easy to lose parts, mainly the spring, if you don't go about it the correct way.
If you send me a photo of the switches in question, I could probably tell you what you need to do. Or, you could just buy some Versa-Micros from us ;)
jimmer:
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--- Quote from: jimmer on February 07, 2013, 02:35:09 pm ---Have you seen a dis-assembled Goldleaf? I haven't but it's easy to design a leaf spring into a 10mm cube. You may not want to call it a real leaf, but it could have the same operational characteristic as your true-leaf design. (you could even make it tweakable with pliers if the lid came off)
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Not specifically. But I have disassembled many like it. I have a pile of Chinese Sanwa-style switches here which are built the same way. I've even studied the mechanics of them and figured out how to modify those which are designed to click, and make it so they don't.
If you have ever disassembled a keyboard which has actual switches in them, you've seen something very similar. They aren't even close to what an arcade leaf switch is, or can do :)
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If you don't know what's in a goldleaf switch, how do you know that the chinese ones were 'like it'.
Did they have bits like this forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,110252.msg1169103.html#msg1169103 inside?
1500points:
Ah ha! good timing, i JUST got a package in the mail from paradise arcade. the switch says zippy and it was very easy to open with a knife, unlike the old blue/black ones i have.
How do I alter it to remove the click.
All 3 types I have laying around:
jimmer:
Great, can you tell me the model number on zippy micro?
edit: ah just realised it's not a lever type. I'm trying to find out which lever model it is that Paradise sells.