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Making a U360 into a top fire!
LeedsFan:
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--- Quote from: AndyWarne on January 01, 2008, 12:32:17 am ---That problem would need to be solved and I have not yet thought of a way...
Andy
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What about my patented Anti-Twist Rotary Cable Connector? Only 99 cents each! :cheers:
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How does this work exactly? I've been studying the diagram a while now trying to picture in my mind how this works or connects. :dunno
headkaze:
--- Quote from: LeedsFan on January 02, 2008, 02:42:36 am ---How does this work exactly? I've been studying the diagram a while now trying to picture in my mind how this works or connects. :dunno
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It would probably be difficult to make something like this. Bascially what it is is two small discs that spin around independantly of each other. The red wire connects to the centre of one disc to a metal contact. This metal contact touchs the contact on the other side where the red wire continues on. So while the two discs can rotate around the centre they still contact in that centre part where the red wire connects on each side to allow the current to pass through.
The blue wire is separated by a concentric buffer zone where the two discs do not contact each other. In the picture you can see in the Top View the blue wire is separate to the red wire by a light grey area. This is where no current can pass between one disc to the other.
The dark grey area is where the blue wire is connected to it's own metal contact area. This represents the area that allows current to pass between the two discs for the blue wire. But this time it's in a concentric circle like the irus around pupil. This is so it can rotate around the disc and even be 90 degrees across from the blue wire on the other side of the disc but still have a contact through that concentric metal plate.
It will not intefere with the red wire because of the buffer zone. This design could allow for more wires to be added by putting in more concetric buffer zones and more concentric connection plates.
It's a little hard to explain, but I think the picture can help one visualise it. I really couldn't be bothered getting out a 3d application and actually making a model of it which would probably help. But it might be too complicated thing for Andy to manufacture anyway. But I think in general it's a good idea and would solve the problem of wires that need to twist.
yugffuts:
That's not a 'new' idea. The spinner on my Rock n Roll pinball worked in that fashion. Your picture doesn't explain the idea, though.
Take a joystick shaft with a top fire button. That button has 2 leads going down through the shaft. Each lead (button & ground) ends at a bottom plate with a round metal ring, so no matter the orientation of the shaft, it is always connected to some part of the ring.
Below this, there is a non-moving platform with identical rings always in contact with the above moving parts. The wires connect to this non-moving part, so the wires will not tangle.
For the record, this same idea would allow you to add buttons to 900 degree or unrestricted steering wheels.
headkaze:
--- Quote from: yugffuts on January 02, 2008, 01:49:38 pm ---That's not a 'new' idea. The spinner on my Rock n Roll pinball worked in that fashion. Your picture doesn't explain the idea, though.
Take a joystick shaft with a top fire button. That button has 2 leads going down through the shaft. Each lead (button & ground) ends at a bottom plate with a round metal ring, so no matter the orientation of the shaft, it is always connected to some part of the ring.
Below this, there is a non-moving platform with identical rings always in contact with the above moving parts. The wires connect to this non-moving part, so the wires will not tangle.
For the record, this same idea would allow you to add buttons to 900 degree or unrestricted steering wheels.
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Okay so where can Andy get these things from and how much are they?
yugffuts:
I have no idea where they can be purchased. I was just trying to illustrate the idea a bit more clearly.