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| thrash242:
Can't you just connect the grounds for all the switches in serial? It would probably be much neater and easy to make modular wiring. This is what I'm thinking about doing with my removable panel and it'll have (for the first and general purpose panel): 2 8-way joysticks (4 switches each) 7 buttons each (7 each) So for each player there'll be 11 wires each plus ground, for 12. So I'm probably going to have a 12 pin Molex connector for each player plus trackball and spinner for the panel that has it. |
| Minwah:
--- Quote from: thrash242 on December 09, 2004, 04:19:00 pm ---Can't you just connect the grounds for all the switches in serial? --- End quote --- |
| Stingray:
My grounds are also all daisy chained together and run through a common ground wire in the printer cable. -S |
| yourfatmama:
GGKoul, i was considering using ethernet cables for my swappable panel, could you elaborate on the difficulty you ran into when attempting to use them for yours? i saw a guy use them for his modular panels and it looked like it worked well (other than the thinness of the wires). |
| Doc-:
CAT5 panels and cables are optimal for modular setups. The wires are thin, but I have quite a few tips for mitigating that on the site below. So far I have had no broken wires, despite daily handling of the modules on my system by my 6 year old son (we're always swapping panels): http://www.beersmith.com/mame/ See the wiring link at the top of the page. The bigest advantage of the CAT5 system is that you can plug it in with one hand while holding the panel with the other. It could be extended for larger panels - just divide the inputs up into separate cables (perhaps one for buttons, one for joysticks like mine...) Cheers! Doc - |
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