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How do I wire the led in atari/cherry volcano buttons?

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Rocky:
No smoke, just a quick sizzle.

Thankfully, it isn't hard to replace the LED's  :D

torez:

--- Quote from: Rocky on October 05, 2006, 12:34:38 pm ---No smoke, just a quick sizzle.

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You sizzled my shizzle! ... sorry, I couldn't resist LOL

I acutally had the same question as Sizzler for my Omega Race control panel, so I got my answer. ;D
Sizzler, the right one looks like it has less connections and kinda darker dome.  Is that right button just a switch, without the led?

My switches are rated for up to 250VAC and is stamped with +=2V MAX.  Peculiar, they have 6 connections, but only the otside ones plus 2 turned 90 degrees ones are connected.  What are there other two connections for?

Sizzler:

--- Quote from: torez on October 05, 2006, 02:12:18 pm ---Sizzler, the right one looks like it has less connections and kinda darker dome.  Is that right button just a switch, without the led?
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That picture is from the wiki pages.  But yes, the one on the right is a version with no LED and you can see it's also missing the posts at the bottom because it's not made for an led.   I think the black topped ones were used for missile command fire buttons and probably other places too.


--- Quote ---Peculiar, they have 6 connections, but only the otside ones plus 2 turned 90 degrees ones are connected.  What are there other two connections for?
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On mine and on the one in the photo there are 5 connections the two in the middle are for the led and the other three are just like other microswitches with one NO one NC and a C common ground.

I read a post about the six connection buttons.  Instead of a NC NO and C they are NC NC and NO NO where you connect the two that match how you want the button to work.   For normally closed you would wire the two NC posts and for NO you use the two NO posts.  I think that was what the post said.  You can probably find it by searching or just leave them as they are if their working :)

smalltownguy:
Sorry to drag up an old thread, but I had a question:

Can the IPAC (more specifically, the mini-pac) be used to drive the LED's in these switches? My control panel will use these volcano buttons as the player1 and player2 start buttons, and I thought I might try and use the mini-pac to light them. If not, no biggie, I can always run power from my CPU power supply @ 5v, or take power from a ps2 or usb port. In that case, they'll always be on, but maybe I'll wire up a switch for them.

Turnarcades:
Yes in theory. The i-pac family can power the 3 keyboard led's directly which are usually set up to flash as they did on the arcade originals. Aint seen a topic on this in a while, but if you check the Ultimarc website or e-mail Andy you'll get the answer you need.

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