Scalping and no new pics or info 
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Dad tested positive for COVID-19, gonna get tested myself in a few days since we’re in close contact.
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Ulgh.
Best of everything to you and your family; fingers crossed for a speedy recovery.
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Prayers for you and your family @d3v , hope its negative for you, and that your dad’s positive case is very very mild 
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Totally not worth it, but still nice to have:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SONY-GDM-FW900-24-TRINITRON-WIDESCREEN-PRO-DISPLAY/274486528955
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got my hex inverters in the mail (i ordered 3 because i have 3 sticks using hori mini pads) and wired them up like in this post:
“-connect the ADC point from the pcb to pin 14 on the chip
-connect R2 and L2 to pin 2 and 4 on the chip
-connect pin 1 and 3 to their respective buttons
-connect 7 to ground”
one of my sticks is working fine, but for the other 2 the triggers go crazy for a bit after plugging in. did i just get some bad hex inverters? they’re SN74HC14N.
I did try wiring pin 14 to usb vcc instead of the ADC point but that didnt help.
finally got around to paying shipping for the VLX I won. I made sure to do the protective packaging as well, since it’s coming via Seamail, and not DHL. DHL was $250 to get it here, good lord. I don’t think I’ve ever noped out of something so quickly ever.
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My VLX has spent a couple of years in a box wrapped in a plastic bag in the attic.
Please get more use out of yours than I’ve got out of mine 
Yeah, VLX Kuro hasn’t gotten much use recently either.
When I got it, for a while I was using it pretty regularly on the PS4 mostly with SFV and DBFZ, with a bit of BBTAG and UNIEST. Then kind of stopped playing SFV, and moved onto playing DBFZ, BBTAG and UNICLR on the Switch instead, so I’ve been using my super-modded Exar Exaprize there.
My VLX Kuro has just been… sitting there on my TV stand since late 2018.
So I tested the 2 hex inverters that allegedly werent working by putting them in the stick that was working and it turns out there’s nothing wrong with the inverters themselves. Instead the pad pcbs im using go haywire when i connect an inverter. Guess im just gonna leave the triggers on their own common line.
That’s very weird. These are Hori Minis? The DQ Slime themed ones?
I didn’t have any issues with the 2 that I did. Were there variants of the boards?..
No not the DQ ones, just regular black ones. https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01A6MKVEG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_qqPxFbYX56N5D I guess one thing I could try is adding resistors
EDIT: A 10k ohm resistor to the same IC pins connected to the signal lines fixed the issue, but its weird that I didnt need resistors in my other build using the same board.
Good to hear that you found a way to solve the issue.
I wasn’t even aware that there was non-DQ-Slime versions. And those are even cheaper than the ones I got last year during Black Friday (I think they were on sale at $40CAD at Best Buy)! Though the ones I got were for friends, so it’s not coming out of my pocket. 
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Covid update, work is gonna have us work from home for the rest of 2020 
Giving us $500 to get our “home office” up to snuff.
Anyone know of a good standing desk ( preferably one with a SuperGun in/on/under it 
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No but seriously if anyone knows of a good one, please recommend.
Lucky.
We’re stuck working from home until at least Feb 2021, but our company isn’t giving us anything to help spruce up our home office, although we are allowed to “borrow” as much as we need from the office as we want (I have enough gaming monitors around, but some colleagues have been bringing home their office’s dual-monitor setups and stuff).
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Fightsticks subreddit is just chock-full of misinformation.
Dude on there stated that tactile switches like Cherry MX browns and clears do not work in Crown SDB-202 buttons.
I played SFA2 for two hours last night with sticks that had both. PSA: clears are too hard to press. Browns are dope (might need lubing though) though travel overall is less than PS-14-GNs. Feel is on point.
There are zero threads on here for those buttons. Might need to change that.
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Be the change you want to see.
Just do it!
That’s Reddit in general.
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Dooooo it.
I’ve never used “standard” mechanical switches like those in any application (although my wife has a mechanical keyboard).
I’d be interested to know about them in an arcade-stick scenario, and how each type fares/compares against the standard Sanwa/Seimitus that we all use.
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