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Title: can you find my wiring mistake?
Post by: specksynder on February 03, 2008, 12:19:01 am

So I wired up on control panel on my cocktail cabinet and fired up the pc to see if it worked.  I'm using I-Pac and a mag-stik plus.

Fire up the game, and everything is backwards, so I swap wires.  Game works.

Exit to windows and try to shut down, but in the drop-down menu the menu selection is scrollling as if an arrow key is pressed down.

Did I wire the joystick to normal closed instead of normal open?  Is that why it seemed to be wired backwards?

I used the terminals farthest from the ground.

Title: Re: can you find my wiring mistake?
Post by: leapinlew on February 03, 2008, 12:25:13 am

Sounds to me like you've wired it to the wrong post

Title: Re: can you find my wiring mistake?
Post by: specksynder on February 03, 2008, 12:40:45 am

Alrighty then.... now I need to double check my buttons -- they may be miswired too.  Bummer, but better to know now.

Thanks, dudes.

Title: Re: can you find my wiring mistake?
Post by: somunny on February 03, 2008, 01:58:22 am

My problem was that I kept wiring the directionals backwards, as in left was right, right was left and so on.  I just didn't want to accept that even though you push the stuck to the right, it's hitting the left switch.   :dizzy:

But like Lew said, it sounds like you've got the wires on the NC instead of the NO.

Title: Re: can you find my wiring mistake?
Post by: specksynder on February 03, 2008, 07:28:38 pm

yeah, that should have tipped me off... I made SOOOO sure I had the directions right, that if they were reversed then the switches were wired wrong.

I had ALL the switches wrong... don't know how I read them wrong.  Everything is much better now.  Thanks, everyone!

Title: Re: can you find my wiring mistake?
Post by: protokatie on February 03, 2008, 08:53:29 pm

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I just didn't want to accept that even though you push the stuck to the right, it's hitting the left switch.

HEHE! I ALMOST made the same mistake, except I was looking at the CP from the bottom side, and "accidentally" wired left and right "backwards". Turns out my "mistake" was correct! I had made sure to pay attention to "top vs bottom" and didnt have to worry about those being inverted!

Title: Re: can you find my wiring mistake?
Post by: leapinlew on February 03, 2008, 10:10:14 pm

eesh...

I don't even look what direction I'm wiring things anymore. I just fix it in Mame.

Title: Re: can you find my wiring mistake?
Post by: Kevin Mullins on February 03, 2008, 11:56:42 pm

Quote from: leapinlew on February 03, 2008, 10:10:14 pm

eesh...

I don't even look what direction I'm wiring things anymore. I just fix it in Mame.

That's all fine and dandy until you go to work on a real arcade machine in which you don't have that option.  ;)