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| ids:
Tried wiring it to an afterburner. In the control-panel/game-controller side, I never saw any reaction to movement. With a meter, same thing. I don't have the official wiring harness, and thought maybe I screwed something up. But the fact that I got the led on the board to light up tells me I have things done properly - maybe. Got a set of 10-pin connectors at a local shop for much less than the official cost, wired according to all info i could find, ... Willing to accept I've done something wrong, just hoping someone has done same and has a solution. It continues to work great in USB mode, so I haven't fried it :) |
| AndyWarne:
The way that it detects whether its connected to a device such as an I-PAC is to look for pull-up resistors during power up. It floats the pins and checks that they are sitting at 5 volts. The I-PAC will pull them up to 5 volts. If the pins are connected to buttons they will not be pulled up. So to "trick" it into running in output mode the device you connect to must have pull-up resistors on its inputs. This would be normal for any device which is designed to have grounded switches connected to it. Andy |
| Kook:
This is a longshot, but is your Afterburner connected to a USB hub (not connected directly to a PC USB port)? I think a hub, even a powered one, could cause some problems here. If all else fails, shoot Andy (at Ultimarc) an email. |
| ids:
Yes (afterburner on a powered hub). I've not noticed any other issues, but can try going direct. Perhaps it's not flipping into output mode because I've only tried connecting a single pin (other than +5v and gnd) -- another thing to try. In the end, it isn't critical, usb is the way to go; but I thought it'd be nice to have "cursor keys" working from a stick. (Also, the afterburner config is done this way, and starting a new game requires the "OK"/left-right -- I will investigate if this is configurable enough to support usb-joy5-left/right). Thanks for all the feedback, very grateful to have some things to try. (and answers the burning question - how does that stick determine its mode?) |
| AndyWarne:
It checks pins 5,6,7,8 of the connector. These are connected to Right,Left,Up Down in output mode. So all those 4 pins need to be pulled up at boot. Andy |
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