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Grounding - Okay to 'Split' From Ipac and Computer Power Source?
RoninEditor:
--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on May 12, 2008, 03:26:38 pm ---The coin switch ground should use the same ground as your buttons from the Ipac. Just make some long wires and use crimp connectors.
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Excellent. I have the wires that are long enough to reach, I was gonna take that to the ground, then to the same ground, have my daisy-chained pushbuttons... that should be okay, right...?
DaOld Man:
I grounded my trackball to the PC case. I used one of those test leads with alligator clips on each end. Cut one clip off and soldered to my trackball ground wires. I clipped the other end to the PC case. Attaching it to the case with a screw is probably better practice, but the alligator clip is a lot easier if I have to remove the PC for any reason. I havent had to yet, so next time I will probably attach it with a screw to the case.
TheShanMan:
--- Quote from: RoninEditor on May 12, 2008, 02:33:29 pm ---The reason I ask this is because, it looks like in Delusional's video that you have to keep it bouncing from one button to the next, in a straight chain vs. splitting one off into a "Y" to reach out to my coin slots. If I can just split off from my Ipac's ground, going one to the coin slot micorswitch, then the other part of the "Y" getting the rest of the buttons on one side? This would obviously be a lot easier, I'm just not sure if this is 'okay', without frying something.
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There is nothing wrong with your ground chain branching off like a "Y", assuming the mechanical connection is solid.
RoninEditor:
--- Quote from: TheShanMan on May 12, 2008, 04:25:06 pm ---
--- Quote from: RoninEditor on May 12, 2008, 02:33:29 pm ---The reason I ask this is because, it looks like in Delusional's video that you have to keep it bouncing from one button to the next, in a straight chain vs. splitting one off into a "Y" to reach out to my coin slots. If I can just split off from my Ipac's ground, going one to the coin slot micorswitch, then the other part of the "Y" getting the rest of the buttons on one side? This would obviously be a lot easier, I'm just not sure if this is 'okay', without frying something.
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There is nothing wrong with your ground chain branching off like a "Y", assuming the mechanical connection is solid.
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That's awesome then... I'll just do that, muuuuuuuch easier.
CrazyKongFan:
--- Quote from: TheShanMan on May 12, 2008, 04:25:06 pm ---There is nothing wrong with your ground chain branching off like a "Y", assuming the mechanical connection is solid.
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yeah, they just all have to be on the same electrical path...you could run a separate wire from the ground on the ipac to each switch, and it would work, but it would be awful crowded on that ipac ground terminal ;)