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2600:

Mounting them on a PCB may be a bit difficult.  I imagine you got the SMD version and not the thru hole version.  Finding a PCB at your local Radio Shack, or whatever you have locally, that mates to 4mm is probably going to be difficult.  If you did find one the soldering may be a pain, but not impossible.  Hard to tell from the pics.

Maybe sacrifice the ends so you can drill thru it and screw it down.  Or If you really wanted to you could layout a PCB and get a couple made.

Minwah:


--- Quote from: 2600 on September 28, 2005, 08:10:55 am ---Mounting them on a PCB may be a bit difficult.  I imagine you got the SMD version and not the thru hole version.  Finding a PCB at your local Radio Shack, or whatever you have locally, that mates to 4mm is probably going to be difficult.  If you did find one the soldering may be a pain, but not impossible.  Hard to tell from the pics.

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I agree.  I would probably have a hard time even finding somewhere to buy a PCB from.  And you're right I do have the SMD version...


--- Quote ---Maybe sacrifice the ends so you can drill thru it and screw it down.  Or If you really wanted to you could layout a PCB and get a couple made.

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I did consider sacrificing the ends...but it would mean I would need several more as the largest one available is only 6-way.  I know it's not ideal but I expect I can get some glue strong enough to do the job...what do you think?

2600:

If they make a glue strong enough to hold a guy wearing a hard hat attached to a steel beam, then I'm sure you can find one strong enough for this.  ;)

Personally, I'd want to use a non-conductive surface with a non-conductive glue.  It may be work fine otherwise, but I go the 100% way.  Especially, considering that if will be attaching things with voltages and not just a button.  If you are, I think you may be  lucky since most of your USB devices are low-speed, but the idea of it still freaks me out.  Call me shell shocked.  That then also raises the question of encoders and other things and how they will deal with this.  Buttons connections would be fine for the most part, but analog devices or 49ways, etc may not like it as much.


BTW, OT, does your FE deal with Direct Input devices dissapearing and others appearing while running?  Or are you not worried about this.

Minwah:


--- Quote from: 2600 on September 28, 2005, 09:07:42 am ---Personally, I'd want to use a non-conductive surface with a non-conductive glue.  It may be work fine otherwise, but I go the 100% way.  Especially, considering that if will be attaching things with voltages and not just a button.  If you are, I think you may be  lucky since most of your USB devices are low-speed, but the idea of it still freaks me out.  Call me shell shocked.  That then also raises the question of encoders and other things and how they will deal with this.  Buttons connections would be fine for the most part, but analog devices or 49ways, etc may not like it as much.

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The contacts will be stuck to wood...and at a guess most glues are not conductive so it should be OK.  Also, I am only using buttons (IPAC is in the cabinet) and USB1.  My 49-way board and mouse boards etc. will be on the panel itself, and I will use hub(s) so there will only be 1 USB connection max.  I think this should be fine.


--- Quote ---BTW, OT, does your FE deal with Direct Input devices dissapearing and others appearing while running?  Or are you not worried about this.

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Good question :)  I must admit I have not fully tested this.  However, for each of my swappable panels I will have a custom list setup (one for digital sticks, one for analog panel, one for yoke panel etc.) and since Mamewah can handle list-specific ctrlr files it should be OK.  The only question is whether I can change to the particular list after swapping panels (& therefore controls).

I've currently got one 95% complete panel and two 75% complete panels done so I should find out in the reasonably near future...

mahuti:

All of this work & testing. I'm going to just switch to using multiple GP-wiz eco boads. Viva la USB!

19$ a panel. Not cheap, but neither is all of the other crap that I've purchased in little bits here and there trying to do it on the cheap. The only thing that will be tricky is having panels with multiple spinners / trackballs / rotary sticks.

I don't know. I guess I could use a combination of the cheap Wiz & Ultimarc boards depending on the panels needs.

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