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Unresponsive Microswitches
Kremmit:
--- Quote from: Ice Cream Jonsey on June 05, 2006, 06:07:16 pm ---
Yeah, all the buttons and all the microswitches on the joystick, too. If I go too quickly it really only registered maybe 3 out of 5 times. If I press a button slowly and deliberately, with a second's wait before I press another button it usually works pretty well.
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That's exactly the behavior you get from old switches in an arcade that have maybe had too many soda baths. But you wouldn't expect it to be happening to ALL your switches, at the same time, and with them being brand new.
BobA:
--- Quote from: Ice Cream Jonsey on June 03, 2006, 05:07:18 pm ---
I am wondering if the way I connect the wires to the buttons is the problem. I am basically poking the wire through the hole on the connector and then revolving the wire around the rest of the connector. I am daisychaining all the ground.
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This is usually not a good way to wire a switch. You should be either soldering or preferably using quick connects. A connection made in this manner is very loose and will get worse as time passes and the switches shake and corrode.
miles2912:
Start simple. Make a simple ground test wire and then connect a few buttons and see if it is having problems. Sounds like a wiring issue but if the simple tests fail then I would look at the IPAC.
What OS and what connection is the IPAC BTW?
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SirPeale:
--- Quote from: Ice Cream Jonsey on June 05, 2006, 06:07:16 pm ---I have the grounding setup by daisy chaining. I am going from one button to the next and then hopping over to the joystick. I put the first ground wire (the one that ends up in the IPAC) through the hole on the bottom of the first microswitch. I loop it around. To go to the next button, I take a length of wire and 1) wrap it around the contact as well 2) I then feed the other end of that wire into the bottom contact's hole.
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Yeah, that could explain a lot of problems. Since you have it like that, you might as well solder it together, as 1/2 the work is already done.
Xiaou2:
Just FYI, Micros do go bad. I used to manage an arcade, and had to change them
often in games which were played often such as the popular fighters.
Now, this took some time.. but it did happen.
The micros still often clicked.. but there was no responce - or - an intermittent one.
Usually, you could see wear on the switch itself, as well as the click not sounding
very pronounced at all. (very quiet)
This may be the actual spring inside going bad - and or it may be the internal contacts
also wearing out - or are corroded.