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Where do I get "THESE" buttons ?
SNAAAKE:
Anybody actually build a popnmusic panel ?
Any links ?
I am trying to build one but... ???
--- Quote from: Sephroth57 on February 13, 2004, 08:46:59 am ---ive been looking into these too as im builing my own Pop N Music controller. the actual buttons they use are from Coinopexpress.com, but they only sell them 80 of 1 color minimum, and at that bulk only cost 4$ each! the cheapest place to buy the induvidually is from Betson.com. theyre like 17$ each there and same as the happs one. theyre actually better then the ones on the ransai controller cause theirs dont light up when you hit em.
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How do you know he gets em from coinexpress ?
That ransai dude told me he imports em from hong kong.
You have the link to beton cone style buttons ?
(their site is confusing,cant find) ???
Sasquatch!:
--- Quote from: mahuti on February 13, 2004, 01:53:02 am ---when looking at the HTMl source for that page, I took a look at the .js file that makes the framless page reload the page with frames.... came across this
"// added 11-14-2k1 by GSM: added a delay cause people were crying about it, customers that is"
Just thought that this touch of humanity left in by a programmer is funny. Usually code is so clinical and stale. It's really shocking when I see any kind of human messages in it.
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Hahaha. I think most programmers/webmasters still have a "touch of humanity" when it comes to berating their end users at least.
RandyT:
--- Quote from: RandyT on February 13, 2004, 11:31:34 am ---I have a couple around that will get dissected this evening and I'l report back if no-one else beats me to it :).
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Is it bad luck to quote yourself? :)
Ok, since I didn't see anyone say they did it yet, I pulled one of these apart. It wasn't easy considering all the protesting that was going on. I didn't pay alot of attention to it, so I only managed to pick out a few words....emergency, power outage, etc....too many "what ifs" for my tastes.
So, the first thing I did was test out the action. Seemed pretty good. Easy to turn on and off. Pretty reliable actuation (which actually didn't bode well for an easy mod.) Time to go inside for a look....
I pulled the four tiny philips screws and the thing falls apart in my hands. Ok, I pick up the pieces and try to forget about the need to put the light shaped puzzle back together at the end of this. :(
Now I look for the switch. Nuts! Its a real switch. No simple springy pieces of copper or ingenious, easily defeated, molded latching mechanisms. Just a nice little quality push-on/push-off switch.
But wait! I can see a seam! So I wrecklessly jam my thumbnail into the seam on both sides of the switch and like any mechanism under spring pressure, it too transforms itself into a nearly impossible looking puzzle. Only this time, it's about 1000 times smaller >:(
After staring at the parts for about 10 minutes through the illuminated magnifier lamp I use for my electronics work, I start to see how the switch worked. There was something that looked like a piece of bent wire that moved on a pivot. Surely this random looking part was responsible for the toggling action of the switch, so out it went.
Now all I had to do was to get that pencil-lead sized contact back into its holder and aligned with the contacts it slid on previously, while at the same time positioning the spring in it's proper place and snapping the upper body of the switch back in place.
Anyone who has tried this type of stuff probably already knows that you get about 3 chances to put it together. The first one usually fails miserably and the second one usually involves looking for the parts for about 10-minutes. By time the third and last attempt is upon you, you have enough experience with the mechanism to get it far enough to get some really good tension on that spring....
Long story longer, I think the spring went in my coffee and the little metal contact went into the cat box..and I'm not going in there looking for it.
So after all the "I told you so's" and promises to replace things fallen victim to my folly, I came to the conclusion that cobbing a real microswitch in there might not be a bad idea. But seeing that I need to get a replacement light for the wife, I might as well pick up a couple extra and give it another shot.
I'll report back when I find out more......
RandyT
Industen:
--- Quote ---How do you know he gets em from coinexpress
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Ransai Thread here:
=http://www.ddrfreak.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=79675&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
CoinopExpress
=http://www.coinopexpress.com/products/parts/push_button/Dome_Illuminated_Push_Button_3476.html
--- Quote ---You have the link to beton cone style buttons
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The Beton ones are in Adobe Arcobat Just click on Pushbuttons and go down a page or two.
Wienerdog:
--- Quote from: Sasquatch! on February 13, 2004, 08:57:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: mahuti on February 13, 2004, 01:53:02 am ---when looking at the HTMl source for that page, I took a look at the .js file that makes the framless page reload the page with frames.... came across this
"// added 11-14-2k1 by GSM: added a delay cause people were crying about it, customers that is"
Just thought that this touch of humanity left in by a programmer is funny. Usually code is so clinical and stale. It's really shocking when I see any kind of human messages in it.
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Hahaha. I think most programmers/webmasters still have a "touch of humanity" when it comes to berating their end users at least.
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The funny part is that the year is listed as 2k1. I hope I never reach his level of dork. Wait, I'm on a programmer on a "build your own arcade controls" website.... crap... I'm too late.