just a few quick questions about wiring the RB and LB and stick on a matrix wireless PCB xbox 360 controller.
first off ive successfully duped the ABXY buttons and the xbox guide and start, but im having trouble locating the correct points for the LB and RB solder points (im only using a 6 button layout and i dont really want to mess with the triggers).
also i got my arcade stick, Seimitsu LS-40-01 in the mail the other day and it has 5 wires, i understand one is for ground and im going to do a direct connection to the D-pad but i dont understand where the 5th wire goes in terms of ground.
this may or may not make much sense but any answers are greatly appreciated
Well I don’t know what you mean saying cannot find LB and RB.
They are labeled in the pictures.
The Signal will be the top right points.
Looking at the back of the PCB, you see four solder points that make the LB and RB.
Now, the PCB is not Common Ground.
So you cannot do a Daisy-chain.
This means you cannot use your Wire Harness for LS-40-01.
To use your Joystick for this PCB, you will have to modify it.
You will have to cut the Ground Trace of Joystick PCB.
Or remove the Joystick PCB and use Microswitch.
Idea shown here using Sanwa JLF as example.
Here is the PCB you have.
See all the colors?
Each thing has a color.
Some share the same color.
That means like colors can share the Common Line.
Don’t know if you understand.
So I suggest you use two wires for each Button and each Direction.
So where does the Ground of your Wire Harness go?
Nowhere it will go; you will not use it, unless you do as above in link shown with JLF.
Here is shown using Wire Harness with LS-56-01 what I’m saying; apply same to LS-40-01.
One wire for Signal, and one wire for “Ground” (it not a real Ground).
Each Button or Direction will have two wires, so you will have twenty-six wires total.
thanks for your reply. i understand what you are saying but how can i use two wires each direction for the joystick when the stick only has 5 wires output?
disregard this, didn’t see the last picture. its all very confusing atm but il defiantly be able to work it out from the information supplied, thanks heaps
The colored circles are the “Ground” (not a real Ground).
Each colored letter can share the same colored “Ground.”
But it that does not make sense to you, then I suggest soldering two wires for each Arcade Stick Input.
One for Signal, one for “Ground.”
The point directly across from each Signal is the "Ground."
Example of “Ground” across each Signal is shown in colored circles.
Now imagine each Signal having a colored circle directly across from each.
here is my pcb for the Seimitsu LS-40-01. No clue which lines on the pcb to cut or which of the 8 points i should solder or what color they would correspond to.
can you just draw lines over which to cut? ive looked everywhere for a guide and dont fully understand what you have put forward. im a complete noob at this stuff and im helping someone else
It might be simpler to just solder directly to the microswitch points and forget about the wire harness altogether. Then you could grind away all the traces without worry.
