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superbigjay:
Hello,
I'm currently planning my CP and have a question.

Is there a way to connect a happ360 joystick on the same keyboard encoder pins used for a regular 4-way joystick.

If you have a regular 8-way joystick and a regular 4-way joystick on a CP, you can easily connect both joystick
to the same 4 keyboard encoder pins by simply the 2 "RIGHT" switches of the 2 joystick in parallel (same thing for the remaining 3 directions):
- when both joystick are idle, the RIGHT circuit is OPEN.
- when you go RIGHT on either joystick, the circuit is closed.

The thing with the happ 360, is that instead of switches that close/open a circuit, you have some electronic used
to drive 0V or 5V.  Probably the happ360 won't like it's circuit to be shorted by a regular switches...

So I guess the answer is NO, but just in case...
Jay

destructor:
Answer is YES.

superbigjay:
Sorry for the delay, I've kind of forgotten this post.  Now that I've received the P360, I've been asking myself the same question and I've remembered that I've stated a post with this question...

So you think I can simply connect the left pin on the happ P360 with the left microswitch of the regular 4/8 way joystick?

My concern was that the happ360 doesn't use mechanical switch.  So instead of having an open/close circuit, it's driving 0v when the optical sensor is triggered and 5v when idle.

If the happ360 uses some kind of tri-state buffers for its 4 directional pins 0v for active and hi-Z (open) for inactive, it should work without any problem :
- j1 idle + p360 idle = open + hiZ = open
- j1 idle + p360 active = open + 0v = 0v
- j1 active + p360 idle = 0v + hiZ = 0v
- j1 active + p360 active = 0v + 0v = 0v

where hiZ = High Impedance

However, if it's using regular drivers for 0v and 5 v, we would have this:
- j1 idle + p360 idle = open + 5V = 5V
- j1 idle + p360 active = open + 0v = 0v
- j1 active + p360 idle = 0v + 5V = Short  :dizzy: : trying to drive 0v + 5V on the same pin!!!
- j1 active + p360 active = 0v + 0v = 0v


So Destructor, you still think that it should be fine??

I prefer to ask twice than be sorry  ;D

destructor:
Connect UP to UP, LEFT to LEFT, RIGHT to RIGHT, DOWN to DOWN, GND to GND. And remember about add 5V wire (from I-PAC for example). No difference if you connect to microswitches from other joystick or directly to keyboard encoder.

superbigjay:
So the following connections should be fine then right?

thanks
Jay

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