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Title: switching out joys to p360
Post by: deadmoney5 on December 02, 2005, 06:20:57 pm

I have a SlikStik Classic with Competitions for the 1 and 2 player joystick.

 I want to swap the 1 player out and install a P360.  The problem is that the competition (and all other joys) use the COM and NC for each microswitch, while the P360 just uses the direction wires and 1 ground (along with the 5v).

Since the competitions have been daisy-chained together with other buttons and such, will I break the "chain" if I just leave the unused connectors unconnected?

Or do I have to somehow connect all of the wires (which I won't be using anyore) back together from the old competition?

Title: Re: switching out joys to p360
Post by: versapak on December 02, 2005, 08:13:29 pm

You should be just fine leaving them disconnected.

They are chained through the common wire, not through the switches the wire connects to.

Think of it as a pearl neclace. You have the pearls on a chain. You take some of the pearls off, the chain still connects. It may look a little uglier, but it functions still the same. The connections on a common ground to the switches are like the pearls. The important part is the wire underneath em. :)

Title: Re: switching out joys to p360
Post by: deadmoney5 on December 02, 2005, 09:37:26 pm

thanks vers...

now I just have to figure out where the 5v tap is on the ipaq