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Product Viability? For hot swap control panels
Lilwolf:
I'm considering building Jamb Tac connectors for hot swappable control panels.
Something similar to this... but not as small..
http://www.automotivebase.com/prod/east/Jamb-Tac-Four-Contact-Wireless-Connector.html
They would be different then the car ones like this.
1) They would be in longer strips (and cheaper)... Current models are 12 connections across...
2) They would connect up to standard cheap terminal blocks.
http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=755&item=TS-1020&type=store
This will allow you to have a cheap / easy to cable strips on each control panel.
3) Longer throw on each switch. This would make it more friendly for non-exact motions.
4) Back side would be connected to a bunch of wire lug fork (disconnect that you screw into).
So the idea is you would screw it into the side of your cabinet, then use cheap / easy to get (radio shack / wherever) terminal blocks on each control panel.
I will hopefully have some pictures in the next few days of the prototypes.
DYNAGOD:
my only concern woudl be aggressive play may cause an intermittent loss of contact..
if your sure you can ensure a tight contact between the terminals i dont see why not, but you would definetly need to keep the control panel firmly captive.
paigeoliver:
Why don't you just impliment hot swap panels by using a JPAC and having each panel terminate in a JAMMA edge connector. That is probably the simplest solution.
You can easily get your trackball and other connections on there as well if you are willing to do a little solder/solder on your jpac to shoot those wires out of the unused jpac pins.
locash:
I am looking for a solution to this problem and I can't seem to get my head around either of these solutions. Anyone care to diagram?
paigeoliver:
You can't get your head around it because you don't have, or have never seen the parts involved for mine.
You simply order an "economy Jamma harness" from bob roberts (one for each control panel), and a Jpac from ultimarc.
Each control panel gets wired up with a JAMMA harness, and THAT plugs into your J-Pac.
The j-pac has 15 spots on it's edge connector that are unused, and not electrically connected to anything else either. This is where you can add in your OTHER controls.
Say you have a USB spinner on one panel. You chop the USB cable in half, carefully solder up the 4 wires inside to four of the unused spots on the JPAC edge connector
http://www.ultimarc.com/jpac2.html
shows which ones are used, and which are not.
You then hook up the 4 wires from the OTHER half to the same wires on the JAMMA harness, so that when you plug in the JAMMA harness it complete the USB connection.
If you aren't understanding now, then this project might be beyond your current skill level.