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horseboy:
Well I am finally making my first post here. I have been looking into doing this since '99, but I never had the time. I have been keeping up with this site on and off ever since then. Now, though, I am finally going to start building my cab. It's now or never.

Anyway, I wanted to avoid a frankenpanel, so I am going to go with multiple cp's. I have a couple of questions that I couldn't find definitive answers to.

First off, I am going to have a four player cp, so I am going to have a crap load of buttons and stuff. I was thinking of using scsi cable because it is readily available with 50 and 68 contacts. I read that most people say you should use 18-22 awg wire. I have also read about others using scsi, but I am pretty sure that most (all?) scsi is 28awg. Is this going to be a problem?

Also I was going to use an optipac a couple of dual strike hacks, and possibly a led wiz or something similar. Can these be hot swapped this way? I dont see why not.

And if so would using the scsi cable be a problem in that case?

Thanks in advance

Rocky:
Using SCSI cable is not a problem.  I used 25 wire serial cables and they have been performing fine for 3 1/2 years.

As far as hot swapping the dual strikes, I'm not sure. Will you be unplugging the USB input or unplugging the controls from the "guts" of the dual strike?  Either way, it won't damage anything, it might give eratic results. But, if you reconnect or don't enable the joystick in MAME then it should be fine.


And... welcome!

horseboy:
I will be unplugging the controls from the guts of the dual strike so that I can use the same one for a couple of hacks.

Thanks for the welcome :cheers:

Lilwolf:
Opps, wrote this, then forgot to post...and someone else already mention it.... but might as well post it anyway...

Another thing thats usually cheaper is to get multiple 25 pin serial cables (the kind with all 25 pins active... there is a name for it, don't remember).

Get a 6' cable and cut them in 1/2 and they are prewired.  

Then for the control panels side, you can get M/M  (or F/F) so you can use both ends (assuming you will have more control panels then cabinets :) )

Anyway, it requires a second plug in for larger control panels.  But for smaller simple ones one need 24 pins or less.

bw, I had this for years... but upgraded it to a tac switch solution that doesn't require any plugs... just put a control panel on and its connected... very cool but a LOT more work.
 

Doc-:
I went with CAT 5 network connectors for my modular design.  See the signature for an example.

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