Howdy,
I am embarking on making a cockpit for the driving game GT3 on the PS3.
I have bought an arcade stick controller that I have removed the standard buttons and have mounted my own to.
Some of the buttons are traditional arcade buttons, but some are more in keeping with the interior of a car; they are all momentary switches.
The new arcade buttons all work fine. The problem is with the fancy ones. I am getting phantom presses of the buttons. For example, the horn keeps going, but only very faintly. I used CAT5 to extend the distance from the button to the PCB, length is about 12", which is about twice as long as the wire I used to extend the distance for the arcade buttons.
I removed the wire and found that just by holding it I could cause the horn to go off.
I am presuming that I need to put a resistor to link the open side of the switch to ground.
My questions is, presuming I am correct, what value resistor do I need to use please?
If anyone is interested, the details of the build can be found here:
http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=218357
Many thanks,
Simon.
I am embarking on making a cockpit for the driving game GT3 on the PS3.
I have bought an arcade stick controller that I have removed the standard buttons and have mounted my own to.
Some of the buttons are traditional arcade buttons, but some are more in keeping with the interior of a car; they are all momentary switches.
The new arcade buttons all work fine. The problem is with the fancy ones. I am getting phantom presses of the buttons. For example, the horn keeps going, but only very faintly. I used CAT5 to extend the distance from the button to the PCB, length is about 12", which is about twice as long as the wire I used to extend the distance for the arcade buttons.
I removed the wire and found that just by holding it I could cause the horn to go off.
I am presuming that I need to put a resistor to link the open side of the switch to ground.
My questions is, presuming I am correct, what value resistor do I need to use please?
If anyone is interested, the details of the build can be found here:
http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=218357
Many thanks,
Simon.
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