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Title: What am I missing with wiring this minipac?
Post by: Guywiththegun on April 29, 2016, 10:14:36 am

So I'm following the instructions, daisy-chaining the ground wires, and then connecting the wires to the individual buttons. They're kind of a pain to get on sometimes, but I felt like everything was pretty secure. I fired it up and most buttons worked, but I was having issues with LEFT and the 6th button ("High Kick"  ;D) not working. Everything seemed to be connected, but I tried just forcing the wiring in a little more, wiggling around etc. Left came back on, but dropped out again, and came back on. Still nothing for the button, so I switched wires and got it working. Then the 2nd button stopped (though I'm not sure if I just never noticed it not being on at all). Kind of frustrating to wonder if down the line these things are gonna start randomly dropping out.

At this point I kind of want to disconnect everything not working and start again but some (ground wire on LEFT especially) are near impossible to get off.

Is there a trick to all this?

Title: Re: What am I missing with wiring this minipac?
Post by: Thenasty on April 29, 2016, 10:54:32 am

make sure that the wires are connected to "NO" on each of the Cherry switches.

Title: Re: What am I missing with wiring this minipac?
Post by: Guywiththegun on April 29, 2016, 10:58:10 am

They definitely are. I made sure of it.

Title: Re: What am I missing with wiring this minipac?
Post by: UEDan on May 02, 2016, 11:38:45 am

Do you have a multi-meter to check the connections?

Check connections:
ipac to button connector.
ipac to microswitch tab

If it's ground wire, check the tabs from ipac and previous button.