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Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: NoOne=NBA= on February 28, 2006, 01:49:57 pm ---People keep buying his stuff, at ridiculous prices, in spite of its shortcomings.

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As you said:

Just remember, if you repeat a lie often enough people will believe it.

Although in his defense, I have read that the current version did finally include diodes on the PCB!!!

mccoy178:

NEW QUESTION:

I plan on having 24 buttons and Trackball.  If I had two led wiz's, that would be 64 outputs.  I am wondering if the following would be safe and not hurt the RGB or the LEDWiz.  I would have all the outputs commited, and I am wondering if I could have two RGB's connected to the same outputs due to the two pinball buttons being the same as player buttons on the control panel?  So in effect I would have two reds hooked to the same output, two greens to another, and two blues to yet another.  Could the LEDWiz handle this?  If that were possible, it would allow me to have only two LEDWiz's instead of three.  At $45 a pop, any corners that are safe will need to be taken.

NEVERMIND:  Forgot about the pause and escape buttons, so I don't want to sacrifice that much.  Please let me know if the above is possible, as it would help others in the future.

Toonces:


--- Quote from: mccoy178 on March 03, 2006, 01:34:15 am ---NEW QUESTION:

I plan on having 24 buttons and Trackball.  If I had two led wiz's, that would be 64 outputs.  I am wondering if the following would be safe and not hurt the RGB or the LEDWiz.  I would have all the outputs commited, and I am wondering if I could have two RGB's connected to the same outputs due to the two pinball buttons being the same as player buttons on the control panel?  So in effect I would have two reds hooked to the same output, two greens to another, and two blues to yet another.  Could the LEDWiz handle this?  If that were possible, it would allow me to have only two LEDWiz's instead of three.  At $45 a pop, any corners that are safe will need to be taken.

NEVERMIND:  Forgot about the pause and escape buttons, so I don't want to sacrifice that much.  Please let me know if the above is possible, as it would help others in the future.

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Yes. Completely possible. You can probably go even further than that with just USB power. Seeing that it's going to have a PC with a power supply in the cab, you can always use +5V from a spare HD power connector to power the LEDs. On average, you're talking 20~30ma per LED of current and the max the USB ports on my motherboard will handle is 500ma each. 2 LEDs per port is well within the current limits. I have my player 1 & 2 buttons tied to the same LEDs. I don't know of any games that P1 buttons would be different from P2's so they are wired together. Saves ports. 14 buttons wired 18 ports to P1 & P2 buttons and 6 ports for P1 & P2 start buttons and I have 8 ports left over. Just enough to wedge in 8 joystick LEDs should I decide to add something to indicate the joystick modes. either individual LEDs or maybe a 7 segment LED to actually light numbers. Not sure. No room on the CP is my problem.

Toonces

mccoy178:

Thanks for the quick reply. ;D

mccoy178:

Will the Electric Ice buttons and RGB board work with the leaf switch from Ponyboy?



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