Using Ultimarc PacLED64 to Illuminate Joysticks...

[JV]

Hi,

I am building my first Arcade Control panel.

I bought two player kit with illuminated joysticks & buttons.

I am going to wire the button leds to a PacLED64 and they seems straight forward.

However, I have a question regarding wiring the joysticks to the PacLED64.

The joysticks come with a 2 wire cable (red [15v] / black [GND]) to illuminate the joysticks and I'm not sure how to attach them to the PacLED64. Should I wire the joystick black[GND] wire to one of the "+" pins on the PacLED64 and the red[15v] wire to one of the 1 - 64 pins on the PacLED64 (I am assuming that the "+" pins are ground and the 1-64 pins are positive 15v's - is this correct?) - or should I wire it them other way round?

Any help would be much appreciated.

JV.

[Nephasth]

+ does not mean ground. Time for you too Google some basic electrical videos.

[AndyWarne]

I am not exactly sure which product you have, as the only illuminated joystick handles we have are RGB and they have 4 wires, none of which are black.

Andy

[JV]

Hi Andy,

The joysticks I bought can be see here : http://www.arcadeworlduk.com/products/Illuminated-Arcade-Joystick.html
I was planning to illuminate them using a PacLED64 but now i'm not sure that the joysticks are suitable.

I'm a noob electrician so have been searching for some relevant tutorials as suggested.
If you know of any good tutorials that would be great.

JV.

[AndyWarne]

These are not our joysticks but they are single-color if they only have 2 wires so you could simply connect the wires to a 12 volt source such as a wall adaptor, or tap into a hard drive power connector.

Andy

[JV]

I will give tapping into one of the molex connectors a go so.

Thanks Andy.

[Brian74]

+ does not mean ground. Time for you too Google some basic electrical videos.