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First Time Confusion - help!
shardian:
--- Quote from: RetroACTIVE on February 11, 2008, 01:42:09 pm ---I prefer not to use QDs on the old leaf switches... the tabs are very flimsy and sometimes getting the QDs on and off is risky... for those I tend to solder.
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Most definitely! I broke off a leaf terminal on one of the Wico 8-ways in my Dynamo cabinet. I had to replace it with a leaf off one of those chinese knockoff 4-ways. ;D
RetroACTIVE:
--- Quote from: shardian on February 11, 2008, 01:45:54 pm ---Most definitely! I broke off a leaf terminal on one of the Wico 8-ways in my Dynamo cabinet. I had to replace it with a leaf off one of those chinese knockoff 4-ways. ;D
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Not to mention they are like little tiny freak'n razor blades!
mountain:
When I build my next cab, I plan on soldering a 2" extention wire on Wico leafswitches with a QD spade on the end. I am planning on building a new machine right now and I would love to plug in some other joysticks to test them out but it would require yanking the Wicos (de-soldering).
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: mountain on February 11, 2008, 02:09:32 pm ---When I build my next cab, I plan on soldering a 2" extention wire on Wico leafswitches with a QD spade on the end. I am planning on building a new machine right now and I would love to plug in some other joysticks to test them out but it would require yanking the Wicos (de-soldering).
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Don't do that. Wire them into a Molex connector if you plan on swapping them later. That makes it a two second no brain swap rather than having to keep track of what wire is going where and swapping all of those individual QDs.
mountain:
The way I tie my wiring, it will be obvious. Good point though.