Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum

Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: MrInitialMan on September 06, 2024, 05:37:54 am

Title: Question of testing Arcade Buttons
Post by: MrInitialMan on September 06, 2024, 05:37:54 am

Is using an arcade button as a low-voltage/amperage light switch (Say, using a AA battery as a power source with an appropriate lightbulb) a sufficient way to test it?

Title: Re: Question of testing Arcade Buttons
Post by: RandyT on September 06, 2024, 10:37:54 am

Quote from: MrInitialMan on September 06, 2024, 05:37:54 am

Is using an arcade button as a low-voltage/amperage light switch (Say, using a AA battery as a power source with an appropriate lightbulb) a sufficient way to test it?

If you want a non-computer related way to test the button (switch), sure.  You could just find an LED with a forward voltage of more than 1.5v and wire it direct to the AA battery.  But just as easy would be to pick up a low-cost multimeter with a continuity beep option.  Then you would have the proper tool for all kinds of electrical troubleshooting in the future as well.

Title: Re: Question of testing Arcade Buttons
Post by: MrInitialMan on September 06, 2024, 02:04:56 pm

I ask because I'm writing a story, and in one particular scene a youngster is JUST starting out in cabinet repair.  Thank you for your answer.  :)

Title: Re: Question of testing Arcade Buttons
Post by: mrbones on September 16, 2024, 05:29:51 pm

Very interesting. Yep. That would do it.