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Newbie Switch question
Nil8er:
I am interested in having a Street Fighter Style cp, but I want to add a 4-way Joystick in the middle. I read that I should probably wire the Player 1 8-way Joystick and the 4-way joystick into the same place on the interface(IPAC4).
I'd like to be able to have a switch that will allow me to disable the one Joystick when the other is in use.
The switch would have to have 4 poles which run to the interface, 4 poles which run to the Player 1 8-way Joystick and 4 poles which run to the 4-way Joystick.
Does anyone know if this kind of switch exists and where I might be able to get one if it does?
Sprucemoose:
I'm not an expert electrician, but I think that if you open the circuit by turning one of the joysticks off then neither of the joysticks will work. You could always try and see what happens.
Nil8er:
--- Quote from: Sprucemoose on April 24, 2003, 09:45:43 am ---I'm not an expert electrician, but I think that if you open the circuit by turning one of the joysticks off then neither of the joysticks will work. You could always try and see what happens.
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In the picture below, the circles are the joysticks, the long rectangle is the interface, and the center box represents the Switch that I am looking for:
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: Nil8er on April 24, 2003, 09:38:14 am ---I am interested in having a Street Fighter Style cp, but I want to add a 4-way Joystick in the middle. I read that I should probably wire the Player 1 8-way Joystick and the 4-way joystick into the same place on the interface(IPAC4).
I'd like to be able to have a switch that will allow me to disable the one Joystick when the other is in use.
The switch would have to have 4 poles which run to the interface, 4 poles which run to the Player 1 8-way Joystick and 4 poles which run to the 4-way Joystick.
Does anyone know if this kind of switch exists and where I might be able to get one if it does?
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I "think" (80% sure) this will work, but I'm not certain. Wire all the positive switch leads up normally. Daisy chain all your button grounds and run to the I-PAC gnd. Use a separate wire to daisy chain the P1 8-way joystick grounds and run to the ON- Terminal of a SPDT (Single Pole Dual Throw) switch. Use a third wire to daisy chain the 4-way joystick grounds and wire to the other ON- Terminal of the SPDT switch. Use a fourth wire to run from the center (common) terminal of the SPDT switch to the I-PAC gnd terminal.
Hopefully that made sense.
BTW, you will probably want an ON-ON switch, but you could use an ON-OFF-ON switch instead. (Wiring would be the same).
Also, I think you can do what you described, but the method above is simpler/cheaper, assuming it works (and I think it will ;) ) To do it your initial way, you would need a 4PDT (4-pole, dual throw, Quad-pole, dual throw, QPDT???) switch, but I don't think they make such a thing. You could however use 2 DPDT slide switches and gang them together (mechanically) so they both activated at the same time, but like I said, this gets to costly and complicated.
Nil8er:
Thanks Tiger-Heli,
Is there any way that you could illustrate/diagram what you meant? I'd really appreciate it.