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Is it the wiring or the controller?
Dead Movie Star:
--- Quote from: HarumaN on June 30, 2008, 04:06:48 pm ---Hmm... your wiring appears to be ok... hard to tell.
However, your soldering on your controller PCB looks a bit messy, excess solder, and bare wires that could possible short circuit your buttons. Do you get random button presses even if you don't do anything?
Can you get me a close pic of the a,b,x,y button area?
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No random button presses, just that cheeky A button.
Excess solder is an understatement, by the way.
Ginsu Victim:
I'd make sure you don't have a splat of solder bridging a connection somewhere.
HaRuMaN:
From the way that picture looks, I bet when you close the top of your controller the bare portion of your ground wire touches the bare portion of the A wire... you may be getting more interactions elsewhere when the wires shift as the lid is closed.
Like Ginsu said, make sure you don't have any solder globs bridging contacts elsewhere.
Dead Movie Star:
--- Quote from: HarumaN on June 30, 2008, 04:34:56 pm ---From the way that picture looks, I bet when you close the top of your controller the bare portion of your ground wire touches the bare portion of the A wire... you may be getting more interactions elsewhere when the wires shift as the lid is closed.
Like Ginsu said, make sure you don't have any solder globs bridging contacts elsewhere.
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Hmm, I did put electrical tape over it once but it was still registering different buttons... I'll have to take another detailed look, I guess.
Update: I messed around with the wiring a little more and got it to work... under one condition.
This calls for even more electrical tape than before.
Thank god it isn't the controller, eh?
Ginsu Victim:
so is that just a mock-up before making the real one? If not, are you going to enclose it in any way? I see that thing falling over and your wires yanking loose.