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Bender:

Gary,

can you post a picture of the cab?(the area around the cp) then we might have some better suggestions about the design

also in led blinky you can set it to light up just what you want so if you do map more buttons to the same function you can have them all light up or just one

what exactly are you doing with the U360's and cfg magician? never did anything with the joystick in there

Bender:

it's a defender cab right?
with the coin door so close to the CP it limits what you can do

but if you only need another inch or so I'd do something like this and wrap t-moulding around the front edge of the cp
I know the cp has a slight angle(this is just a couple min. sketch-up mock up)


GaryMcT:

The original panel had 3/4" t-molding in the front.  If it goes around the side like you are shotn it might look just fine for it to stick out  a couple inches.

thanks!

I'll build a proto and see how that works.

bkenobi:

As long as you have no controls out on that pad, you can do whatever you want.  If you have controls out there, then you have to worry about enclosing the bottoms of the controls with something. 

Oh, and if you make the extension very long, make sure you use good quality 3/4" MDF or thicker so there's no chance of breaking it off when that yellow truck from RC Pro/Am cheats and you slam your fist on the CP in disgust that your missile missed him somehow.    :timebomb:

GaryMcT:


--- Quote from: bkenobi on August 02, 2009, 10:56:25 am ---As long as you have no controls out on that pad, you can do whatever you want.  If you have controls out there, then you have to worry about enclosing the bottoms of the controls with something. 

Oh, and if you make the extension very long, make sure you use good quality 3/4" MDF or thicker so there's no chance of breaking it off when that yellow truck from RC Pro/Am cheats and you slam your fist on the CP in disgust that your missile missed him somehow.    :timebomb:

--- End quote ---

Sweet. . I didn't want it to turn out ugly. . that's why the t-molding solution makes me happy! :)

Any reason to not use plywood instead of MDF since it's all going to be covered up?  I haven't done the joystick routing in plywood yet, so that may be a mess.

Managed to get my ATI 4800 card working with soft15kHz tonight!  I'm still puzzled as to why turning on triple buffering would cause sound sync problems for Pacman, etc.


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