the link to the resistors you posted is for 1k ohm. You need 10k ohm. (it might work with lower values, but I only tested with 10k ohms.
The transistors you linked to are fine. Most important thing is to make sure they are PNP. Any PNP transistor that is similar to the 2N3904 will be ok. Keywords would be PNP small-signal amplifying/general purpose transistor.
I don’t suppose you could post more pics of your finished mod, Gummowned ?
hmm, what exactly did you need pics of?
CLose-ups of the transistor connections. Are that on all buttons? Also I’m curious to see it in the dual mod.
yes they are on all 15 buttons.
I doubt me taking more pictures will help as my camera has trouble taking close up pictures that are focused. However, I could photoshop flatbushkid’s picture showing where to solder everything.
That would be helpful. I’ve never worked with transistors before.
have you already received the parts?
Yeah, they’ve been laying around for a couple of days.
ill try to get the picture done by tonight.
Hope this helps out. The black boxes with letters are the PNP transistors. The letters are the ©ollector, (B)ase, and (E)mitter pins. Connected to the base pins is the 10k ohm resistors. You wire up the signal wires in your dual mod to the end of those resistors.
Thanks for the diagram. How do you know what side is the emitter and collector side though?
Dunno if this has been mentioned. But I saw this at DataBlitz last Saturday and the box for it now has a warning saying that it will work on the PS3 Slim is you use a USB hub.
I have the same sticker saying the same thing on my 2nd Naki Arcade stick (which is essentially a rebranded DreamGear Arcade stick) The exact words on the sticker are “Requires USB Hub to use with the PS3 Slim System.” You guys might want to try it out if you have a USB hub lying around
Hold the transistor upside-down so that the pins are facing towards you and the black cap is facing away. Rotate the transistor so that the flat face of the black cap is facing to your left. The pinout should be from top to bottom: Collector, Base, Emitter.
Hopefully were ever you got the parts from has a datasheet you can look it up at online.
I should try this out with the controller. My roommate has a ps3 slim I can test it out on.
wow havent check shoryuken for a while and this thread is blooming with gold ;D
btw without the hub the pad works sometimes just not 100% with the ps3slim. just dunno why it wont work 100%. too bad i dont have a usb hub or i can try it out ;(
n if it does solve the prob, does anyone know why using a usb can make it 100% connect all the time?(technical thing ;P)
another cg mod. I used surface mount transistors this time. Leveling up my soldering skills. Interesting enough, the resistors might not needed for this cg mod on this particular brand pad as it was tested working w/o them.
i have a question about those surface transistor, wont it be much harder to wire those base end?
Well I ghetto stickidfied on of these last night (I’ll try and post pics later).
Are the 10K resistors absolutley necessary for this mod to work in a dual mod application? Soldering those things was the difference from this being doable and being an outright pain.
I had no problem at all when I tried to.
For this particular instance it might not be.
Confirmed working for the PS3 slim guys! You just have to use a USB hub, even a shitty 3 dollar USB hub works as reported here