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pacmandude:

--- Quote from: rackoon on January 17, 2008, 09:46:34 pm ---Not to be anal, but does anybody label the wires with those little label tabs the phone company use in their hubs when there are hundreds of lines.

My three sided cocktail cab has over 30 buttons (including some shared with others) plus over 100 UV(buttons and effects) LEDs, and the 6 joysticks, two trackballs, and one spinner wiring. Oh wait, 6 fans and computer wiring and 300 watt stereo wiring plus...well you get the idea. :blah:

POINT IS, from day one I was worried about fixing problems and chasing them down if I needed, so I planned on labeling everything at the middle and end.   

YEA I KNOW I NEED TO CONTRIBUTE AND POST PICS. I WILL SOON. :P

REGARDLESS, I would like to contribute to this thread with adding the idea of labeling your wires and posting a laminated map of your wiring on the inside of the cab. :angry:

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I am currently working on wiring my first cabinet (dedicated pac-man). Because of my inexperience I label all wires to make sure I'm attaching everything where it should be. I'd hate to blow a nice board just because I made a silly mistake. I'm no authority on the subject, but I think it's well worth it and can keep you out of trouble. As you mentioned, if you have problems a few years down the road you will know exactly where all wires terminate which would greatly help with troubleshooting.
Timoe:
My wife came up with this idea for a single player Ms-Pac desktop controller

gatordad:

--- Quote from: Timoe on January 17, 2008, 10:42:05 pm ---My wife came up with this idea for a single player Ms-Pac desktop controller



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Beautiful Job
Dazz:
How do you guys deal with the common ground and shared inputs? 

Do you just daisy chain the ground to each and every button on the control panel and then run the end of the wire into the ground on the encoder?

OR

Do you have it terminate at a specific point (termination block?)?  For instance after a certain number of buttons per chain?  I use an I-PAC4.  My Control Panel has 40 buttons, not including the 4 switches on each of the 5 joy sticks and 4 common grounds for the coin box.  So that is 64 total common grounds...  Not including spinner and trackball which go into an Opti-PAC. 

My player 1 button 1 and player 1 button 2 have a total of 4 different buttons for this function on my control panel.  Previously I just twisted the wires together and pushed them into the correct port on the encoder.  This worked fine, but was really cluttered at the encoder and looked like ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.

Looking at some of these wiring jobs I only see 1 wire going in to each port on the encoder, but several shared buttons.  I'm assuming there is something I can use to run multiple button wires to and then have it connect via 1 wire to the I-PAC.   How the hell do you guys deal with shared buttons and the damn common ground?
mountain:
I daisy chain all shared buttons and grounds.
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