Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Lightguns => Topic started by: runawayabc123 on May 09, 2011, 09:42:39 pm
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Ok, so I recently got a locked n loaded board and the adapter on it is a female one (looking in the manual, the pins have to be swaped around from the board and it came with this adapter to swap them right). Anyway, it is basically the same as a 4 pin floppy power connector, but 11 pins (4 for gun one and 4 for gun two with a few others extras that aren't connected). So, I need a way to connect my light guns to it, which are 4 pin female plugs. I didn't see any such adapter on happ control's website.
The only working I idea I have is to take two male connectors (from desoldered floppy drives... which I was going to use for a light gun switcher harness) and solder them back to back to make a male to male connector. I have a limited supply of these though.
My friend who is also in this hobby suggested putting wires in the plugs to bridge them, but I won't do that due to them not fitting right and arcing (he actually said paper clips, yikes! He isn't a light gun guy though).
Ideas/suggestions?
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http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?vendor=0&keywords=S1232E-36-ND+ (http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?vendor=0&keywords=S1232E-36-ND+)
That should do for you. If you want the pins slightly shorter on each side, try this, instead:
http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?vendor=0&keywords=S1022E-36-ND+ (http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?vendor=0&keywords=S1022E-36-ND+)
(You break those to the length you need, FYI)
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Thanks! Guess it is time to cobble together that connector order.
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The part came today and works. I used the longer one with the length of 0.318" (8.08mm).
It worked great. Lost of dead bad guys. ;D
I am really only posting back so if anyone finds this in the future, they will now it worked instead of bring it back from the dead.