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Can I just wire into a fingerboard?
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CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: Vigo on July 21, 2006, 07:38:20 pm ---I am going with ipac so I don't have to hack into my harness...I want custom controls, and I am capable of doing my own wiring to a fingerboard so I can just plug in to the existing harness.

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OK ... I guess I just don't get it ... aren't your P1/P2 controls already connected to the JAMMA harness ?

What custom controls are you talking about that aren't handled by a JPac/IPac2, but are handled by an IPac4 ?

It's not a matter of your ability, I am just confused as to why you would choose what you have as I don't see an advantage (other than you don't want to buy new stuff ... that I get). Maybe I am not understanding how you plan to connect/disconnect your panels ...

EDIT: Nevermind ... since you're swapping panels, you're disconnecting controls from the harness anyway ... my bad ... carry on.

Cheers.

Vigo:
I realize I'm not being very clear about what I mean, I apologize.

My plan is to soldier all my connections from my computer to a fingerboard like the one pictured on the top of this image.


I have a arcadeVGA and a breakout cable that I would wire to this fingerboard to run the video, as well as a the audio out from an amplified speaker using the method from oscar controls to run the audio


Then, all I would have to do to get my mame to run is to unplug the harness from my Trog PCB, plug in into the fingerboard, disconnect the trog control panel from the harness, and plug a new control panel into the ipac.

This way, I could run my ipac4 so I could have a deluxe 4 player control panel setup, and not have to run a jpac.

It would save me money if I can keep from buying a jpac, so I am trying to figure out if my fingerboard idea will work or not.

thanks
CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: Vigo on July 21, 2006, 11:05:49 pm --- disconnect the trog control panel from the harness, and plug a new control panel into the ipac.

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Yep, that was the piece I was missing ... makes sense to me now.

Cheers.
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