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| GGKoul:
I figure if I can latch my panel down on top of the base. There will be no connection loss. As the top panel will have no room to move. As I said, I will test this over the weekend and forward my results to the group. Question, so for the 5v Trackball wiring. You placed a larger space between the connectors? But that wasnt required for the normal joystick connections. Correct? Can send you add a pic of the final result and how you wired the trackball?? -GGKoul |
| mahuti:
The current 'final result' looks like the other pics. Just more connections. I'll get a pic when i can, but I"m currently working on the "mark III" version. I didn't space out the other connections very much, because a short with them won't cause any major problems, just a wrong button signal. A short with the 5 volt could fry something. |
| mahuti:
Good luck, btw. |
| Searcher7:
I don't have a digital camera, but the basics of my "Quick-swap" system are not complicated. I do however have to redesign the locking mechanism, and may use a key instead of the knob. But getting back to the contacts. Just imagine that attached inside a control panel base is a long block of Nylon(or Delrin) with rows of slots cut into only one of it's four 3/4" sides. In each of these slots there will be a contact screwed into place. That is also where each lead is attached. The other half of each contact is bent around(at 90 degrees) to the next side of the block which is covered by thin rubber. This is the side that makes contact with an opposite but same set-up on the control panel top which is slide into place to complete all circuits. Darren Harris Staten Island, New York. |
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