o. No worries. That simple actually. It all depends on what you want. Arcadeshop.de used to sell the kit which would allow the led to change colors.
If you can find someone selling the kit great; if not, you will have to purchase a hollow joystick shaft, a ball top of your choice (i personally like the bubble ball tops), some wire, and a 3mm led of your choice, you can get any color or a color changing led setup.
You then wire the ground wire to a ground and the 5V or VCC to power. I typically just wire to the pcb board that provides power or tap into the outgoing wire (usb etc) and done.
You will need to drill a small hole in the ball top so the led can shine and hot glue the led in the hollow shaft. I hope that helps. you can get fancy and wire it so it lights up when you put the joystick in any direction aswell like so in my vid below:
just wired one up…yes there is some clearance issues. it depends on how you want to move forward though. button press still registers but the plunger does not go all the way down. maybe 30% i would say. So, i just modified the plunger by trimming the thick 4 quarters and just ever so slightly take a small slice out the two plunger support for clearance and the bahda boom, it works. hope to have a video later this weekend.
I am really interested in doing this with my SFxT stick! Could you tell me what parts you ordered and if you can provide a picture of what the insides like so I have an idea on how to install and mount these guys?
the te kitty mod, sanwa mod or just just the led mod to the stick? Listed below is for the te kitty mod but if you want the button mod or led mod i can tell and share that aswell
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cut room for the te kitty pcb where the 360 pcb is. you will have to cut down or trim down the red mounting towers until both pcbs clear the white plastic to close the case
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cut a small piece of the white plastic and mount the te kitty facing the bottom metal template using that small piece of white plastic and mount it to the white plastic piece. yes less cutting but a pain in a sense when opening back and forth depending on how u secure it.i think i have a stock one to show a before and illustrate the options you have.
parts i used for my stick in regards to just the mod are:
Toodles te kitty pcb
Toodles tes kitty harness
PurpleArms arceye v2 pcbs
Toodles fwidget pcb
sanwa bubble top with seimitsu buttons
28 awg wire
electrical tap
pcb mounts
and good ol’ zip ties
tools needed are:
dremel tool
solder and soldering iron
screw driver
wire strippers and scissors
I was looking for the TEkitty mod. So at this point this is what I want:
My SFxT (Or TE-S stick) to do the following:
LED mod with the arceye 2s (Super awesome btw Purplearms!)
Dual mod with PS3 and Xbox360
Dont need the multi-console stuff. I really just need some guidance to where to start. I am not a solder type of guy. What would you suggest for a guy that doesnt want to solder but still wants the LED and dual mod? I may be comfortable with cutting the stick parts but not confident. You do really great work Mufasa!
Why don’t you hire Mufasa to work on your stick? If you haven’t soldered before, it could be like chasing the rabbit down the hole and hiring someone would save you alot of time and frustration…
if you get a sparky jr pcb led controller you wont have to solder (because it uses screw down terminals) but what i will do is make a video tomorrow and post it showing the insides of mine and a stock cuz i honestly cut too much which deciding where to mount everything and we will go from there. only thing i am not 100% sure is that if the sfxt is supported by the ps360. just look into and see cuz the sfxt is the same as a te-s. but when i get off work i will take a peek. it can be done for your setup and have no soldering at all
what powers the sparky is the same for what powers the fwidget. a 5v source. that can be a 5v source on the modding pcb you are using or tap into the usb cord. anything that gives you 5v of power. you dont have to use just the te kitty for mod. you can use the ps360 like you stated above. the only thing you will have to debate on is to solder up the home button or use a combination of buttons like start and back to activate home. but other than that. both boards require no soldering. its entirely up to u. i only used one ps360 ever so im not the expert on it.
There’s no soldering for the PS360 either. I’ve got one running with the AE2s and Sparky Jr. No issues so far. Mind you, this is in a custom install, so I didn’t have a TE board of any kind. RoDcHaN, for yoru setup a TEKitty sounds like the way to go, simply because you’ve already got the TE, not necessarily because of the solderless thing.
One of these days I’ve got to get some videos up, I tell you…
pshhh. i took a dremel to those sanwas and they light up now LOL.hold on. i am just getting in so give me 15 mins and i will have a vid showing the sanwas light up
lol