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jck_strw:
Hi
I'm muddling my way through my first cab and I have a couple of questions.
I'm doing a standard, upright, LuSID-like cabinet. I plan on using swappable CPs though. One will have a 4 player setup--4 buttons each (except for the "primary" 2 players which will have 6 buttons) with 8 way joys. The other will only have a 2 player setup--each with a 4 way joy and some buttons. The 2 player setup will also have a trackball and a spinner.
So I want to be able to "quickly" swap out CPs when the gang comes over. What do I need to use to make the swapping quick and easy? Panel clamps on each to attach them to the cab, naturally. I was going to use molex connectors, but I'm not sure if I'm thinking about this correctly (which is why I'm "thinking out loud" here). So I run wires (terminated with male molex pins) to a male molex connector from my Ipac, correct? And then on my CP, I run wires (termined with female molex pins) to a female molex connector. Connect the two together and we have MAME magic, correct?
The largest molex connector Happ sells is a 15 pin. Rough, back-of-the-envelope calculations lead me to about 50 wires for my 4 player CP. Do they make larger ones?
Is my thinking correct? How else have people done this?
Thanks for any input.
Shape D.:
Try this, 61 pin connector theyre expensive though.
http://www.whirlwindusa.com/multi012.html
Stingray:
--- Quote from: jck_strw on December 08, 2004, 02:40:49 pm ---How else have people done this?
--- End quote ---
This is how my removable control panels connect up:
I used 25 & nine pin din connectors from radio shack. Joysicks and buttons connect up through an old printer cable. Spinner & trackball connect up through an old nine pin cable (don't remember what this was originally).
Here's a pic of the inside of my joystick panel.
The printer cable plugs into #2 on the above illustration. The trackball/ spinner panel has an additional nine pin cable that plugs into #5. I know it's a little wacky looking, but it does the job.
-S
bionicbadger:
Really silly question.
Would it be possible to hack a wireless keyboard to get it to transmit the output from an IPAC back to the computer/reciever somehow?
You would have to somehow feed the IPAC output into the wireless keyboard's transmitter instead of the input from the keayboard itself. Has anyone looked into something like this. Then you could have wireless/swappable panels (but would need extra ipacs/transmitters).
Anyone?
NoOne=NBA=:
If you hack the keyboard, the I-pac would be pointless.
As far as a 50-pin connector goes, if you really want to do it all in one cable, I'd get a 50-pin SCSI cable, and cut it in half.
That will give you two cables for your panels.
Then all you need is a 50-pin SCSI port to connect to the I-pac, and you're set.
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