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| Goshen:
If you don't have one, I highly recommend you get this, its your best friend when working on electronics :) http://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=72&products_id=190 |
| QuarterJunkie:
Thanks Goshen, that's good advice and I will certainly check for voltages myself, but I was really looking for people that have done this already and share their first hand experience so others may benefit from the knowledge as well as myself. I hate it when I am doing a search on a topic only to find the exact subject I need an answer to but no answer.... :dunno So, Who's done this before, or who can definitively say not to? |
| SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: QuarterJunkie on February 27, 2008, 11:23:20 am ---....I just thought I recalled reading on another thread that there was some voltage present on the trackball button connections that could (or will) fry an encoder chip. --- End quote --- You don't really need to wire one button to both the trackball and an encoder board. It's a waste of resources and an additional configuration to contend with. You should wire one button to the trackball or the encoder board, no need to do both. You can, of course, wire individual buttons to each of the button connections. Just try to avoid having your CP look like skittle barf ;D There is a way to wire the same button to both encoders, but again, why bother? :dunno It's a waste of resources. |
| QuarterJunkie:
Well, here's my dilemma. I want to be able to also use the trackball as a mouse in Windows, so I can't just wire the buttons to the encoder exclusively. If I wire three of the Player 1 buttons to the Trackball and have them effectively be mouse buttons, I lose the ability to use these buttons in other emulators. I could have put in dedicated buttons for the trackball, but I really wanted to not complicate the panel too much and make it look like like a button city and have to give everyone a twenty minute usage class before they could play on it. Sure, I could just use a mouse in the pull out tray, but if I don't have to, I'd rather navigate windows right through the panel....Am I trying to do too much here ?? Should I just get over it and wire the buttons to keyboard inputs and use a mouse in the drawer? Thanks everyone for your answers... |
| TelcoLou:
When I get my new PC installed, I'm just going to use one of those wireless keyboard/mouse thingies, and keep them in a closet unless I need to use 'em; being lazy and stupid, this is the optimal solution for me 8) |
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