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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Kevo! on February 28, 2011, 12:17:27 pm
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Hello All,
I have an issue that I've been trying to workout, but seem to have a lot of trouble figuring out.
I am trying to wire SANWA Joysticks with a 4 way joystick but the SANWA parts use totally different parts???
Like - I would look at wiring diagrams for linking Player 1's joystick and buttons 1 and 2 to 4way joystick and fire 1 and fire 2, and I notice that the switches used for the HAPP parts have 3 lugs - NO, NC, and Common.
BUT on the SANWA buttons there are only 2 Lugs one for signal and one for ground.
Also on the SANWA joysticks there are switches with no lugs and connected to a board the has 5 wires coming from it - up, down, left, right, and ground.
QUESTION! - How would you wire a control Panel with...
3 Joysticks (2 being Sanwa 8-way and 1 being any brand 4-way.)
24 Push buttons - 8 action buttons per player - 3 per player buttons (start,coin,escape) - 2 fire buttons for 4-way
Using an IPAC2 or.... (whatever you guys think)
Sounds like a CISCO test :)
ANY IDEAS!? :dunno
- KEVO
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Simple to wire if you have 5 wires. The 4 wires go to the appropriate terminals on the ipac and the ground wire goes to the ground on the ipac. If you have a regular switch with no nc and ground then the no goes to the ipac and the gound is daisychained to the common connectors on the switch. If you only have 2 contacts on a switch one is ground and one goes to the input of the ipac.
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I understand that and sorry if my question didn't make sense to you... But what I'm looking to do is daisy chain the 4way to the 8 way SANWA as well as push buttons 1 and 2 to player one (SANWA) push buttons 1 and 2....
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You can daisy chain all the switches as long as you identify the ground for the daisy chain. In the case of 2 contact switches it does not matter what is chosen as ground.