can you find my wiring mistake?

[specksynder]

So I wired up on control panel on my cocktail cabinet and fired up the pc to see if it worked.  I'm using I-Pac and a mag-stik plus.

Fire up the game, and everything is backwards, so I swap wires.  Game works.

Exit to windows and try to shut down, but in the drop-down menu the menu selection is scrollling as if an arrow key is pressed down.

Did I wire the joystick to normal closed instead of normal open?  Is that why it seemed to be wired backwards?

I used the terminals farthest from the ground.

[leapinlew]

Sounds to me like you've wired it to the wrong post

[specksynder]

Alrighty then.... now I need to double check my buttons -- they may be miswired too.  Bummer, but better to know now.

Thanks, dudes.

[somunny]

My problem was that I kept wiring the directionals backwards, as in left was right, right was left and so on.  I just didn't want to accept that even though you push the stuck to the right, it's hitting the left switch.   

But like Lew said, it sounds like you've got the wires on the NC instead of the NO.

[specksynder]

yeah, that should have tipped me off... I made SOOOO sure I had the directions right, that if they were reversed then the switches were wired wrong.

I had ALL the switches wrong... don't know how I read them wrong.  Everything is much better now.  Thanks, everyone!

[protokatie]

I just didn't want to accept that even though you push the stuck to the right, it's hitting the left switch.

HEHE! I ALMOST made the same mistake, except I was looking at the CP from the bottom side, and "accidentally" wired left and right "backwards". Turns out my "mistake" was correct! I had made sure to pay attention to "top vs bottom" and didnt have to worry about those being inverted!

[leapinlew]

eesh...

I don't even look what direction I'm wiring things anymore. I just fix it in Mame.

[Kevin Mullins]

eesh...

I don't even look what direction I'm wiring things anymore. I just fix it in Mame.

That's all fine and dandy until you go to work on a real arcade machine in which you don't have that option.