Hooking up new keywiz thingy

[delta88]

I see that this new keywiz has a pin header on it.. Well having used 4 Minipacs in the past year and a half I have found that the wireharness that comes with the minipac kinda stinks...kindly put...... I guess I am looking for some pictures of how potential buyers are to hook it up?

issues I have with the are the connecter ends don't fir happ buttons unless you smoosh them tighter... Another is that the harness is short and yo umust get the extender cables to make it worth while..I found out the hard way.. and that was putting a 2 player layout with 6 buttons each and a 3" TB in the middle? to much to ask for?

This jamma hookup thing I saw someone mention sounds cool.. all though maybe a connector with some long wires attached with nothing on the ends and just provide the crimp ends so the user can wire there cp and not have weird bunches of cableing zip ties here and there...


thx
 -d88

[Tiger-Heli]

The best way to hook it up would be with an cut IDE HD cable to a set of terminal blocks, but the $$$ for the TB's might eat up the cost savings between the Eco 2 and the KeyWiz Std.

[delta88]

I figured that someone would say Cut an ide cable but yeah.. an IDE cable can be a pain to cut and strip..  Hows about a trmblock we could hook custom length of wire to ? or just have it be term block then 3 feet of wire with no end crimps?

[cholin]

Do whatever you want, but an IDE cable would be the best in the end.  Sure it will take you forever, but once it's done, if you ever need to change it, no problem.

[Tiger-Heli]

I figured that someone would say Cut an ide cable but yeah.. an IDE cable can be a pain to cut and strip..  Hows about a trmblock we could hook custom length of wire to ? or just have it be term block then 3 feet of wire with no end crimps?

I'm not sure I follow you. . .  An IDE cable is a pain to cut and try to attach crimp connectors to.  To cut and run to a terminal block is pretty simple, but the cost of the TB eats up a lot of the cost savings.

If you don't care about it being a gamepad and not a keyboard encoder, then you can use the KeyWiz Standard, which has the terminal blocks built in in place of the pin header.

If cost is no object, you could use the breakout board shown here, but it's $15.95 with a Hagstrom encoder, and I'm not sure how much on its own.

I would like to see RandyT offer a version with TB's on the board itself for about $10 more, but I don't know if it will happen. . .