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Title: basic wiring question
Post by: pd on August 18, 2003, 08:51:00 pm

Let me start off by acknowleding that I'm aware there are no stupid questions...just stupid people

...and I am one of them.

Just got my I-pac today and am starting the wiring layout.

Have read bunches but am still curious how I'm going to hook up my 8-way Player 1 joystick and my 4-way joystick since they both use the same keys in MAME mode.  

Can I daisy-chain them like I'll be doing for ground?

Title: Re:basic wiring question
Post by: Apollo on August 18, 2003, 08:57:21 pm

Well you won't be daisy chaining them but just put the wires in the same holes on the IPAC.

Title: Re:basic wiring question
Post by: hooded_paladin on August 18, 2003, 08:57:53 pm

exactly.

Title: Re:basic wiring question
Post by: Apollo on August 18, 2003, 11:08:38 pm

He he thanks for the back up lol.

Title: Re:basic wiring question
Post by: hooded_paladin on August 18, 2003, 11:11:57 pm

ha that was odd... I just posted at the same time you did.  daisy chain em, or what apollo said, it's electrically identical.

Title: Re:basic wiring question
Post by: Gromet on August 18, 2003, 11:21:48 pm

What I did is this... I daisy chained the grounds, like everyone i think does.  When I tried to wire multiple wires into the i-pac, I found it very hard to get and more than one 22 guage wire into the i-pac terminals...  So I went with the daisy chain idea for the other wires also.  

Basically, just go from sau up on the 4-way to up on the 8-way to the i-pac...  It workes perfectly.

Best of luck...