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Itatemyquarter:
Just The Answers I Needed, Thanks So Much To All Of Ya. One Day I'll Get My Stuff Up And Going. I'll Probably Try The A-pac. Thanks Very Much
Minwah:

--- Quote from: bdsjake on September 26, 2005, 12:43:30 pm ---one question for you that have hooked up a star wars yoke, I got mine working, tested it in windows control panel and seems ok.  But, I never hooked the "green" wire to anything, I would assume its a ground, but the "black" wire worked as ground.  What if anything did you hook your green wire to?

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The green wire is an earth wire.  Many arcade controls (analog sticks, trackballs etc), and I believe it is there to prevent a static build up from damaging any electronics.

I don't bother wiring it to anything, but if you are concerned you just need to wire it to an earth point.
Tiger-Heli:
For those without a British-to-English Dictionary, earth is ground in US-speak.
2600:

--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on September 27, 2005, 10:08:04 am ---For those without a British-to-English Dictionary, earth is ground in US-speak.

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Be careful how you generically label grounds.  We could get into a whole grounding theory, but grounds are not always equal.  Also, earth is commonly used for a type of GND in the US.  ;)



As for using the Earth GNDs, for where I live, there is a lot of static in the winter.  I tie all my GND all metal compnents to earth. ie.spinner, Trackball, etc.  If not one, one touch and the PC will reboot and could potentially cause damage to it.







Minwah:

--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on September 27, 2005, 10:08:04 am ---For those without a British-to-English Dictionary, earth is ground in US-speak.

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Yeah, I used 'earth' as opposed to 'ground' to avoid confusion with the common ground in the controller...'Earth' makes more sense in that context IMO.
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