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Tron Joystick
« on: September 21, 2006, 10:19:35 pm »
Anyone have any idea why the original Tron joystick has an extra leaf with 3 wires coming from each switch?
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Re: Tron Joystick
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2006, 10:36:46 pm »
The leafs probably came off a Wizard of Wor stick.

The first set of connections would make you TURN in a given direction.
The second set would make you MOVE in that direction.
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Re: Tron Joystick
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2006, 10:45:27 pm »
Wizard of Wor was the first thing I thought of, but then I went and looked at a few things.  Encryptor may be counting the blade that pushes the other two together as a "third leaf".  Wizard of Wor sticks have four blades on their leafswitches.  Further, I just looked at the bottom of a couple of Xenophobe joysticks, and for no reason I can think of, there is indeed an extra wire soldered on to one tab on each switch, so that each switch in fact has three wires.

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Re: Tron Joystick
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2006, 10:52:26 pm »
Here they are, Wizard of Wor on top, Xenophobe on the bottom.  Note the extra leaf blade on WoW, and the extra, redundant wire on Xeno.
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Re: Tron Joystick
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2006, 11:03:04 pm »
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that is strange...
WOW stick even has extra contacts
the othe stick had extra wires but stil a simple contact 2 solde joints

never seen that  :dunno
my tron stick has MS Pac leafs so I can not say what is going on
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Re: Tron Joystick
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2006, 11:34:16 am »
Looks like just daisy-chaining the grounds.  Redundancy is wise and also shows wisdom.
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