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hooded_paladin:
Okay, for a while I worked the rounds at a Bemani board that saw a lot of newbies and a lot of PSX controller hacking (to make DDR pads).  I got absolutely sick of requests to edit the photos to show where the solder points are because, if you're smart enough to solder to the controller and make the DDR pad / control panel to go with it then you are smart enough to figure out solder points yourself and will be the more electronically-aware for it.

Realization 1 : each button area has two sides, and when these two sides are electrically connected, the button is considered to be pressed.

From this realization you already have enough to know where to solder to because those contact pads are big, clean and copper.  But there's another thing that will help:

Realization 2 : each button area has a side that is electrically connected to a certain side of every other button area.  This is called Common (COM) or Ground because it is common to every button area, and 0 volts (ground level, so to speak).

That was a little extra information just to help with your electrical knowledge, but the gist of that realization was that you only need to solder 1 wire for the ground side of every button.

Summary - solder 1 ground wire, and 1 wire to the OTHER side of every button.  Thus is your controller hacked.

Oh, and that Yenox microswitch looks pretty compatible with the more popular Cherry microswitches, but of course I'm not very knowledgable in that.

lemoe:
thx, thats perfect. that is what i thought but i didnt want to dive in and mess up just because 'i thought i knew'.

Hurray, that means i can start tomorrow and get into it.

Thanks to everyone

Lemoe

Tiger-Heli:
Kinda -

See my pics and comments in this thread:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=36972.0

(You may need different points on your pad, but the idea is the same).

Also, not all pads use a single common or ground wire, in fact, often they may use two wires for four buttons and you need to wire up a matrix to make it work, but soldering to both sides of the contact pad is always safe, even if you're doing some extra work.

jcrouse:

--- Quote from: lemoe on May 23, 2005, 04:31:03 pm ---(and yes, i have a fair bit of experience with a solderin iron)

--- End quote ---

I hope your soldering skills are a little better than your photography skills.

  :o
John

lemoe:
Ha Ha, if i take my time my soldering should be neater then that, but the photos were rushed. Anyway, the second lot  arnt that bad, its the first few which are usless (they were done on my phone :P)

Thanks Tiger-Heli, that made the common much clearer.

Lemoe

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