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Title: Is it ok to wire two buttons in parallel?
Post by: boesiii on December 19, 2006, 09:54:54 pm

I was going to wire up two button in parallel, one button would be on the control panel and the other would be a button on a hacked nintendo controller.  I won't have the space on the encoder for the buttons on the nintendo controller.  What I mean by parallel is that two buttons would share the same positive terminal on the encoder.

Would there be any problems wiring it like this?

Title: Re: Is it ok to wire two buttons in parallel?
Post by: Fozzy The Bear on December 19, 2006, 10:18:40 pm

Quote from: boesiii on December 19, 2006, 09:54:54 pm

Would there be any problems wiring it like this?

None at all.....  It just means that both buttons do the same thing. All you're doing is closing a connection with one button or the other.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)