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problem with ground wire hook up
« on: July 17, 2005, 10:00:05 pm »
ok im trying to wire up my control panel right now, its a two player control panel with 6 buttons each player, im using a IPAC2 and my question is: do i wire player 1 controls separate than player 2s controls? on the IPAC2 there are 2 ground connections? 1 for each player right?
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Re: problem with ground wire hook up
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2005, 10:27:54 pm »
You can wire them all together through one ground, or use seperates for each player. 
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Re: problem with ground wire hook up
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2005, 10:28:09 pm »
It doesen't matter if you use 1 or both it all works by personal experiance, and my lazyness to not have to do seperate daisy chains :-X
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Re: problem with ground wire hook up
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2005, 10:29:38 pm »
On the minipac you simply daisy chain all of the grounds from each switch.
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Re: problem with ground wire hook up
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2005, 10:59:26 pm »
thanks for the info, but i dont really understand what daisy chain? is, dont i just have to put 2 wires in each disconnect and create a wire harness? is that the same thing. ??? im trying to follow it in the spystyle guide below:
http://spystyle.arcadecontrols.com/index8.htm
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Re: problem with ground wire hook up
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2005, 03:31:37 am »
The instructions for daisy chaining are right at the middle of the page you linked.

A picture of an imaginary green wire passing through all buttons. Then the actual crimping 2 wires together into a single connector to get it done.
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Re: problem with ground wire hook up
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2005, 06:45:44 pm »
yeah i had a feeling that it was daisy chaining, but it didnt say that so i didnt know thanks, so i guess i will just daisy chain all of the buttons together player 1 and player 2, thanks for the help ;)
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Re: problem with ground wire hook up
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2005, 06:55:53 pm »
The advantages of keeping them seperate is that you could decide to mess around with one of the sets and yet still be able to play with the other one.....
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Re: problem with ground wire hook up
« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2005, 07:01:14 pm »
yeah im still thinkingabout doing separate im going to start on it inthe next few minutes but, so your saying its better to wire them separate?
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Re: problem with ground wire hook up
« Reply #9 on: July 19, 2005, 07:41:07 am »
If you wire them in one big loop - I-PAC Gnd to button 1 to button 2 to . . . and back to I-PAC Gnd, then you have to have two breaks in the gnd wire before you will even notice it.  If you wire them separate, you will have a shorter run to troubleshoot if you ever have problems.  Your call.
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Re: problem with ground wire hook up
« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2005, 01:06:02 pm »
lol, well its too late i just wired them all up into 1 ground port  ;D
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