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MiniPAC vs. GP-Wiz
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Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: btp2k2 on April 05, 2007, 02:15:07 pm ---wait a minute....IDE cable? As in the ribbon cable that you use to hook up a HD?
May I ask how that works?

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Maybe not too well -

Best solution - Cut off one end of cable, split individual wires, solder individual wires to button tabs. Plug other end onto GP-Wiz Eco.

Next best solution - Run individual wires to terminal strips and then to button tabs, but if you are going to buy the terminal strips you may as well get the MAX encoder to begin with.

Not great solution - split individual wires, remove insulation and fold over about ten times or jam 18-gaug stranded wire into Quick-Disconnects along with individual wires before crimping in place.
Kaytrim:
I setup mine this way because I have a modular control panel.  I think in retrospect that I would have been better using the GPWiz Max for my setup.  But at least my pic gives you the idea on how the cable connects to the card. :dunno

Kaytrim
btp2k2:
Interesting....Wow....I have some decision time ahead of me!

Thanks for the info
bfauska:
Here's another ribbbon cable example, it is fairly clean, but I only have 8 buttons and a joystick hooked up and the rest of the ribbon is cut off.

BobA:
Alternately you can buy a prewired and terminated harness for the minipac from Ultimarc.

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