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PedroSilva:
I see and understand what you all have done, but, if one of them breaks, none will work after the break point, right ?

Shouldn't it be safer tu use some kind of "connection" where all the grounds connect and then a single cable to the IPAC ?

Something like this:

                                   IPAC
 __________________|__
|oooooooooooooooooooo|
|____________________|
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Buttons

JamesS:
I think other people have used Fingerboards here.  So they can talk about it.

But from my understanding that would work and keep everything working.  However, if something breaks, you may not realize it at first.

JustMichael:
What I did was daisychain the grounds like the picture shows and then I connected a wire from the last button back to ground.  This will allow a single break in the wire to occur without making any buttons stop working.

Sasquatch!:

--- Quote from: JustMichael on February 06, 2004, 08:37:22 pm ---What I did was daisychain the grounds like the picture shows and then I connected a wire from the last button back to ground.  This will allow a single break in the wire to occur without making any buttons stop working.
--- End quote ---
Yep.  Have a ground wire going to your first button, daisy chain to all of the other buttons, and then have the ground from the last one going back to the encoder.  This will allow you to have one break and be okay.  (If you have two breaks, the buttons between the breaks will be dead.)

Oldskool:


I used a terminal block.


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