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Title: Atari Volcano light buttons
Post by: Smittydc on January 04, 2003, 11:12:26 am

OK, I'm trying to hook a couple of these up for coin, etc, and could use some help from someone who's done it.

I want to hook them up through the IPAC.  It seems that if you throw a 220 ohm resistor off the 5v line, it should work.  Has that been people's experience?  

Any other advice is appreciated also.

Thanks!

Title: Re:Atari Volcano light buttons
Post by: eightbit on January 04, 2003, 01:10:45 pm

I know ultimarc sells a LED harness thats ready to plug in. I think Andy has some instructions on his site on how to wire up your own LED's to the Ipac.

Title: Re:Atari Volcano light buttons
Post by: SirPoonga on January 04, 2003, 01:22:56 pm

ebay is the best place to get those.  They usually come up on ebay at some point in time.

Title: Re:Atari Volcano light buttons
Post by: OSCAR on January 04, 2003, 04:57:56 pm

Quote from: Smittydc on January 04, 2003, 11:12:26 am

OK, I'm trying to hook a couple of these up for coin, etc, and could use some help from someone who's done it.

I want to hook them up through the IPAC.  It seems that if you throw a 220 ohm resistor off the 5v line, it should work.  Has that been people's experience?  

Any other advice is appreciated also.

Thanks!

The old Atari games used a 330R resistor inline with the LED from the +5V for the start buttons.  I would follow the original specs and use 330R instead of 220R to help prevent burnout.

You are correct, you can get +5V from the IPAC header as described on the IPAC product info page at www.ultimarc.com.