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Title: Wiring buttons by a noob
Post by: jck_strw on January 31, 2005, 12:46:01 pm

I wired up a "mock" control panel back in November (successfully, I might add :) .  Now that I'm finally nearing the end of construction, I'm back to wiring the actual "production" control panel.  But now I can't remember how I wired up my mock panel and I can't find any documentation.  My question:

--The cherry switches have 3 "prongs".  The single prong is used as the ground, correct?  I daisy-chain that to all the other switches and then connect that to the ground on the iPAC.  One of the "pair" prongs is the wire-directly-to-the-iPAC, correct?  So what's the other prong for? 

Thanks!

Title: Re: Wiring buttons by a noob
Post by: Shape D. on January 31, 2005, 12:51:14 pm

Quote from: jck_strw on January 31, 2005, 12:46:01 pm

I wired up a "mock" control panel back in November (successfully, I might add :) .  Now that I'm finally nearing the end of construction, I'm back to wiring the actual "production" control panel.  But now I can't remember how I wired up my mock panel and I can't find any documentation.  My question:

--The cherry switches have 3 "prongs".  The single prong is used as the ground, correct?  I daisy-chain that to all the other switches and then connect that to the ground on the iPAC.  One of the "pair" prongs is the wire-directly-to-the-iPAC, correct?  So what's the other prong for? 

Thanks!

one is NO for normally open and the other is NC for normaly closed.

Title: Re: Wiring buttons by a noob
Post by: Thenasty on January 31, 2005, 01:23:51 pm

Quote from: jck_strw on January 31, 2005, 12:46:01 pm

I wired up a "mock" control panel back in November (successfully, I might add :) .

Title: Re: Wiring buttons by a noob
Post by: jck_strw on January 31, 2005, 04:51:28 pm

Excellent, thanks for the help.

On additional question--I have 2 Wico joysticks in my CP.  There's only 2 prongs.  Which is the ground and which is the NO? 

Thanks again!

Title: Re: Wiring buttons by a noob
Post by: Quarters on January 31, 2005, 06:01:59 pm

Tutorial here:
http://arcadecontrols.com/arcade_wiring.shtml

Title: Re: Wiring buttons by a noob
Post by: jck_strw on January 31, 2005, 06:35:39 pm

Thanks, that's what I was looking for before and couldn't find. 

In the leaf-switch, does it matter which one is the common and which one is the positive?  Do I have to stick to the same layout on each one? 

Title: Re: Wiring buttons by a noob
Post by: RayB on January 31, 2005, 06:55:14 pm

Quote from: jck_strw on January 31, 2005, 06:35:39 pm

In the leaf-switch, does it matter which one is the common and which one is the positive?