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Main => Buy/Sell/Trade - non-retail => Topic started by: Angry_Radish on November 16, 2006, 02:16:39 pm

Title: WTB: Skins game keypad
Post by: Angry_Radish on November 16, 2006, 02:16:39 pm

One last thing I need to complete my skins game 2000 cabinet, the keypad..
If anyone comes across one, or has one in their parts pile, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Title: Re: WTB: Skins game keypad
Post by: Kevin Mullins on November 16, 2006, 09:18:19 pm

Hmmm.... looks like an old timey telephone keypad.
http://www.beckwithelectronics.com/EAO/secmecot.htm (http://www.beckwithelectronics.com/EAO/secmecot.htm)

Title: Re: WTB: Skins game keypad
Post by: Angry_Radish on November 16, 2006, 11:02:49 pm

Tried 3 of 'em so far, the wiring matrix is wrong on all of them so far, not something that is easily modified on the backplane, go figure  :(

Title: Re: WTB: Skins game keypad
Post by: pcates on November 17, 2006, 09:05:36 am

Is this for the original game board? Because I just saw a USB number pad yesterday that I could pick up for you. It looks just like the right side of a standard keyboard, and it was  only $10. Let me know if something like that would work, and I can go a get dimensions, etc...

Patrick

Title: Re: WTB: Skins game keypad
Post by: shardian on November 17, 2006, 09:09:10 am

Have you considered ditching the matrix completely and mounting some tact switches to the back? The buttons would then simply press in a pushbutton.

Title: Re: WTB: Skins game keypad
Post by: Angry_Radish on November 17, 2006, 09:14:37 am

Yeah, it's for the skins 2000 jamma board, but the wiring has to be matrix style, and I have yet to find a 12 button one with the proper wiring...
I'm suprised at how difficult this has been, the wiring is pretty simple, hell I could make one out of regular buttons if I didn't care what it looked like ;D

It goes something like this: (lets see how everything lines up:


       1      2      3
A     []     []      []

B     []     []      []

C    []     []      []

D    []     []      []


So pressing 5 would just give continuity to B2, pressing * would be D1, etc..
LIke I said, pretty simple, or at least I thought it was:-)
Damn hard to get my hands on the right wiring!  :)

Title: Re: WTB: Skins game keypad
Post by: Angry_Radish on November 17, 2006, 09:17:17 am

I thought about that, but I'm still hoping to run accross an original keypad, or at worst, a proper matrix wired one. AS it is, my breadboarding skills are a bit rusty, and if I get something other than the original, my hands are going to be pretty full fabricating the mounting pod

Quote from: shardian on November 17, 2006, 09:09:10 am

Have you considered ditching the matrix completely and mounting some tact switches to the back? The buttons would then simply press in a pushbutton.