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| 16bitcatholic:
This might be more frustration talking than anything else. :angry: :timebomb: The ground wiring is such a long and tedious process on a four player cocktail cab. As someone who knows nothing about electronics, I ask: why? What happens if I just say, screw the grounding, they're just a bunch of buttons? If anyone can give me a good solid answer (I read online that you should ground, but for the purposes of an arcade I have yet to find out the exact reason, unless its like every other electronic process that I don't fully comprehend), then this wouldn't be as annoying. But oh these f-ing ground wires. I already missed one deadline to have it ready for friends coming over to play, don't want to miss this upcoming weekend either. Thanks for any help/letting me vent. |
| menace:
Do you mean grounding the buttons or grounding the cabinet metal bits to earth? If you mean grounding the buttons, its cause they won't work unless you do. They run on DC voltage and need a complete circuit to register a open/close state. If you mean grounding the metal bits on the cabinet--that's for safety so if electricity runs astray it has a path back to the breaker and can register as a fault and trip. No trip means it lies in wait, waiting for a ground source (i.e. you) so it can return, killing you and your buddies in the process. |
| 16bitcatholic:
The buttons. It's an all wood cabinet. Thank you for explaining that to me. Much appreciated. |
| PL1:
--- Quote from: 16bitcatholic on March 31, 2014, 12:25:52 pm ---The ground wiring is such a long and tedious process on a four player cocktail cab. --- End quote --- Buy pre-fab daisy-chain ground wires FTW. IMHO it's not worth the effort to measure/cut/strip/crimp every segment unless you're into the hyper-OCD wiring pr0n thing -- which you obviously aren't. You can cut/splice the prefab daisy chain to customize it as desired with a lot less effort. ;D Scott |
| spoot:
Gotta give a path for the juice. |
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