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Grounding/Wiring
RandyT:
Daisy-chaining is the way to go, but just be sure you have a good solid connection from one switch to the next.
Remember those old Christmas tree lights where one bulb went out and the whole string wouldn't light up? Well, if you have a loose connection in the chain, all the buttons up to that problem area will work fine, but all the ones wired in after it won't.
But, you shouldn't have a problem if you twist the 2 wires together and use the .187" female spade crimp connector like stated above. Direct soldering is also an option, but more of a pain.
RandyT
Stellar:
Another tidbit that may be of some use is that everytime i try to program the ipac i get a timeout error, but of course, when i unplug the coin connections...
wham progam successful...this is really bugging me.
David:
--- Quote ---All I did was daisychain the grounds.
--- End quote ---
Zipper:
Stellar. What coin mech do you have? Maybe try opening up notepad or something and see if it is working correctly.
bowmand1:
Stellar,
I'm an industrial electronics technician, and right away, a problem jumped out at me... you said you have your daisychain grounded at two points on the iPac, right?
This is a potentially bad thing. I know that if you daisychain grounds on relays together in an assembly line control panel, they tell you to NEVER ground the daisychain at more than one point, because it creates something called "dual ground plane potential shift" or some technical BS like that... basically, it just means that the amount of power travelling through the groundS varies depending on your switch's position in the daisychain, and the amount of resistance of wire in each direction... it's confusing, and I didn't completely understand everything the teacher at the factory I was training at was saying... but he got across the point to me that you're not supposed to double-ground anything wired in parallel OR series.
Hope this helps --dave
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