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| D_Harris:
Are there any basic control panel wiring diagrams on this site? I've been hacking a Ms.Pac-man CP and soldering and un-soldering leads for the last several hours and have not been able to get all of the joystick inputs working at the same time. I'm not sure if the problem is the Hydrogen controller, but wanted to make sure the joystick is wired correctly before I continue with the ten buttons. My problem may be that the original harness is still connected, so the grounds have to be arranged the same way, but I used a multi-meter to determine what was what before hand. Nevertheless, I might as well rip off the CP harness and start from scratch. I just wanted to make sure the wiring in the enclosed pic will work correctly. Thanks a lot. Darren Harris Staten Island, New York. |
| Hoopz:
Looks fine to me. My only comment is that you don't have to split the ground into two slots on the controller. In fact, you'd be better off running another ground from "Down" and connecting it to the other ground slot on the pcb. It creates a full loop that way. |
| morsheid:
I just peeked at my Ms. Pac; It looks like you have the ground wires where the main wires (your green, yellow, red wires) go. |
| EwJ:
You're wiring player 2's controls? (according to you diagram). If that is a top view of your joy, the left and right look fine - up and down are mixed up. As already mentioned, you can extend the ground from your left switch back to the ground on your encoder making a ground loop so everything will still work if you get a break in the ground line (unless break occurs right at a switch of course). |
| D_Harris:
Actually, I'll be wiring only the player one side. The diagram is just for illustrative purposes only and is not the way my control panel is wired up at the moment. I used my multi-meter to determine what each pin in the Ms.Pac-man edge connector does as detail in the pic below. Nevertheless, like I said I will just take off the harness and wire it up to the controller. (And the picture above is the bottom view of the joystick). I had already bridged the two ground points on the controller PCB with solder. (And why shouldn't I just connect a lead from the left/yellow switch back to the ground? Thanks. Darren Harris Staten Island, New York. |
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