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struby:
ok, so i cut a red wire the right length and put a quick disconnect on one end of each one for every button on my 4p cp, each with a joystick 1 and 2 players have 6 buttons each, 3 and 4 have 4 each, i have a start and coin button for each player and 3 misc buttons on top, trackball in the middle, just to give you my basic layout, on the ipac4, there are 2 ground slots, when I hook them up, how do i do so here are my questions:

are the 2 slots so i can daisy chain it from one ground slot looped around and hooked into the other, or do i just daisy chain half of the buttons to one and half to the other?

the daisy chains don't loop right, they just end at the last button?

are quick disconnects used for the power (ground) wire, or are they not worth the trouble because you would have to jam 2 wires into one QD?

Jeff AMN:
I just have one big long daisy chain ground wire coming out of my MiniPac for all of my buttons and sticks. You could, however, run multiple lines out as long as you're always maintaining a complete circuit.

struby:
can anyone post me up a pic or send me a link to a pic of the underside of an ipac4 4 player cp all hooked up?

Jeff AMN:
I'll dig up a link, but if you look at Knievel's Woody project thread, you'll see a nice example of his wiring.

EDIT: Here are the pics. The green is his ground line.



struby:
ok, that's the best one i've seen as far as clearness goes, i looked all through the big cp thread at the top and they were hard to see, so there is one ground port on that...keywiz?   and it goes out, daisy chains to all buttons, and does not make a loop/come back to the keywiz right?  and it's always ground on top thing, and button wire on the higher of the two side things, all looks good, so i guess I take one wire from my ipac 4 and hook it to the left side of my panel and the other port to the right...thanks.

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