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marvin_rock

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Yet another grounding question
« on: December 23, 2013, 07:31:00 pm »
So I'm re-doing all my cabling.  I didn't like the messiness with the cables that came with my buttons, I'm a bit OCD like that. 

Here's what I have for my regular switches -

Mostly pay attention to the yellow/blue buttons setup.

As far as the grounding goes, can I do something similar and just have a single ground cable come from one side of the board, and a single ground come from the other side, join them up and put them into the single ground connector?  Or do I have to have one single cable hop between 32 different ground connections?

I can attempt to explain better if needed.
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Re: Yet another grounding question
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2013, 07:39:02 pm »
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Re: Yet another grounding question
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2013, 08:31:36 pm »
Close - but here's a shoddy diagram of what I'm HOPING I can do, the image you posted shows them 100% daisy chained, which I'd like to avoid if possible.  Here's what I'd like to do (attached)
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Re: Yet another grounding question
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2013, 09:04:35 pm »
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Re: Yet another grounding question
« Reply #4 on: December 24, 2013, 07:01:25 am »
Easy to remember saying...."Ground is ground all around"

As long as they are all tied together in some form, you are good to go.
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Re: Yet another grounding question
« Reply #5 on: December 24, 2013, 07:33:53 am »
Quote from: Dawgz Rule on December 24, 2013, 07:01:25 am
Easy to remember saying...."Ground is ground all around"

As long as they are all tied together in some form, you are good to go.

That's what I figured, but I had a hard time finding any images of anything that WASN'T daisy-chained, I was concerned it would cause some weird issue.

I'm hoping to get my hands on a soldering iron and some solder today to finish this off over my currently nothing-to-do holiday break =D
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