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Title: Single Player CP , Wiring a 4way & 8way Together
Post by: General Zod on December 07, 2004, 01:23:03 pm

UGH !!

Title: Re: Single Player CP , Wiring a 4way & 8way Together
Post by: Shape D. on December 07, 2004, 01:30:17 pm

Quote from: General Zod on December 07, 2004, 01:23:03 pm

Would I split the connections from the JAMMA Player1 wires , and run them to each stick?

yes.

Title: Re: Single Player CP , Wiring a 4way & 8way Together
Post by: Minwah on December 07, 2004, 02:00:15 pm

I would daisy-chain wires from the connectors on one stick, leading to the corresponding connector on the other stick - similarly to how you wire grounds on your stick/buttons.  This way you don't have to have long wires leading to each stick.

Title: Re: Single Player CP , Wiring a 4way & 8way Together
Post by: megashock5 on December 07, 2004, 02:19:35 pm

Minway, could you explain the daisy chain thing a bit?

I'm making a 2player cab, but I am adding a dedicated 4-way stick in addition to the two 8-ways. I've never wired anything in my life, but I guess it will have to share inputs with one of the 8-way sticks, right?

I'm going to be using a miniPac, if that makes any difference.

thanks!

Title: Re: Single Player CP , Wiring a 4way & 8way Together
Post by: Shape D. on December 07, 2004, 02:37:09 pm

its kind of like running them in parallell.  run the up from one joystick to the up on the next joystick, and that one to the up on your encoder.  repeat for the other three directions.

Title: Re: Single Player CP , Wiring a 4way & 8way Together
Post by: General Zod on December 07, 2004, 05:01:38 pm

Quote from: Minwah on December 07, 2004, 02:00:15 pm

I would daisy-chain wires from the connectors on one stick, leading to the corresponding connector on the other stick - similarly to how you wire grounds on your stick/buttons.

Title: Re: Single Player CP , Wiring a 4way & 8way Together
Post by: paigeoliver on December 07, 2004, 11:18:11 pm

Just want to chime in and say you can also even mix and match P360 joysticks when doing this. My latest cab has one p360 daisy chained to a Wico 4-way balltop and another P360 daisy chained to a 45 degree (4-way) Universal joystick set up for q*bert.

Obviously you don't hook up the +5 on the other sticks!

Title: Re: Single Player CP , Wiring a 4way & 8way Together
Post by: megashock5 on December 07, 2004, 11:26:12 pm

I'm really intrigued by this, but I'm not sure I get it quite yet as I'm not to the wiring stage. Hopefully it will make more sense once I get there. I'll probably end up asking again in a couple months.

But I do have one question - can you do this with buttons too? Just wondering because I'm going to put pinball buttons on the side of the CP and don't know if they are redundant with other buttons.

thanks!

Title: Re: Single Player CP , Wiring a 4way & 8way Together
Post by: paigeoliver on December 07, 2004, 11:29:54 pm

Yes, you can do it with buttons too.

Title: Re: Single Player CP , Wiring a 4way & 8way Together
Post by: Tiger-Heli on December 08, 2004, 07:18:25 am

Quote from: Minwah on December 07, 2004, 02:00:15 pm

I would daisy-chain wires from the connectors on one stick, leading to the corresponding connector on the other stick - similarly to how you wire grounds on your stick/buttons.  This way you don't have to have long wires leading to each stick.

Also, this is harder to explain, but if you wire the grounds for the P1 8-way and the 4-way separately from each other and separately from the other wiring, you can daisy chain them on each stick and then run them through a DPDT switch before running them to GND on the encoder.  This way you can disconnect the stick you aren't using so your opponent doesn't whack the 4-way and screw up your SF combo move.

See the bottom of  this page (http://www.gunpowder.freeserve.co.uk/wheels/wiring.htm) for a somewhat related example.