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| paigeoliver:
Both common arcade QD sizes are also available at just about any auto parts store. Cherry brand switches use .187 ones, while some of the import switches use .250 ones. My harnesses are always rather custom, as I always end up using both kinds of switches. |
| NoOne=NBA=:
I soldered Cat5 cable to all mine. It's already bundled, color-coded, and makes it really easy to "clean everything up". |
| LJHalfbreed:
No-One: Best frickin' idea ever... That's how I hooked my 4 player CP together.... I have a ton of multicolored cat 5 cable. Just got red, blue, green, and yellow, cut it to fit, crimped on QD's, and I was good to go. For the joysticks, I just twisted each pair together before crimping. Everything was neat and tidy, easily color-coded and marked, and just looked... professional, I guess. Add in some wire clasps/hold-downs/ties, and you're good to go. Only problem I ran into was trying to daisychain all those buttons together for the ground... *sigh*... -LJ |
| NoOne=NBA=:
I used keystone jacks to hook up each because my panels are modular. The color-coded wire really helped because I KNEW that all my joysticks were wired identically, and would be interchangable. I only used ONE wire from each bundle for ground, and just soldered it to the ground connector on all the switches. That left me 7 wires per bundle to hook up sticks/buttons. |
| LJHalfbreed:
Ah... gotcha... my 'frankenpanel' is set up for 4 way play on everything up to PSX. Since PSX has a whopping 10 buttons in 'digital mode', that meant I'm running 14 lines from 'somewhere' with grounds to each switch. I was just amazed at how easy the 'hot wire' connections were compared to daisychaining the grounds together. (I went with a series setup instead of a parallel setup... stupid, I know, but it looks nicer in my demented head). -LJ |
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