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Frobozz:
I got a question about the perfect 360's.

To hook them up, you'd hook them up like a standard joystick (4 control wires plus a common ground) plus a +5V and power ground for it ?  Thus, 7 wires total?

I'd assume the +5V from a computer's power supply would do the trick?  

toilet:
Just 6: 4 controls, common ground, power (5V). I only know about powering them from consoles, there's a 5V signal coming in on one of the wires for DC and PS/2 controllers.

JustMichael:
Once the microswitches are enclosed in a control panel and you have the arcade game making all that noise and music, the clicking magically disappears...   :)

Frobozz:
Huh...  will the I-PAC's ground connection take a 5V hot?  Would I hook 5 wires to the I-PAC and the 6th to a 5V source?  I don't know how much power is flowing through those outputs.  Is it 5V?  

aramis:
frobozz, the ipac inputs go "on" when they get referenced to ground. (usually through a N.O. contact on a microswitch). Basically, the switch just jumpers the ipac ground to the input. This is referred to as an NPN type input.

So, to use the perfect 360, the optical sensors would have to be of the "sinking" or NPN-type...that is, they "output" ground (instead of +5V)when triggered. I cannot verify that the perfect 360's are NPN since I don't have one...

As for the +5 and ground to the joystick, get it from your pc power supply. If you choose to use an external power supply, then make sure the grounds are referenced correctly.

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