the reason i asked this question because based on this tutorial here:
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the pcb was all i need, not the imp board based on the preview tutorial, so the pcb was all i ordered.
i read the threads you’ve mentions but i’m still unclear as to the sole purpose of the im board?
my goal is to dual mod a 360 te.
think of the imp board as a fancy switch to switch between ps3 and 360 without having to drill the hole for a switch and looks nicer.
oooooh, ok!! now i see!
hmm, i purchased a rocker switch (http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062525) but with this, no drilling or visible switch involved.
gotcha!!
might take this route instead.
how does one make the switch between consoles?
it it automatically detected?
Nubian, read my guide. You keep asking things that I already explained.
(Nobody tell tell him this. He needs to read it for himself.)
Bomberman/Faux123,
I got real particular today and cleaned up my wiring job. I moved the wires to the 1-9 and A-H ports on the end of the MC. Like in RoboKrikit’s post…
http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=162026&page=49
He did not use an IMP and now that I have everything finished, I am not getting working results. (sporadic buttons work, stick works only on Xbox)
I there an adjustment I need to make that differs from the posted diagram?
I took my TE stick to networkingyuppie today and we installed a ps3 cthulhu board and an imp into an xbox 360 TE stick (I was just the assistant).
We ran into one wiring problem but I figured out the issue and it was resolved. Everything is working 120%.
Thanks for posting your guide, it was beneficial to us in some areas.
Here are a couple of photos:
Sounds like you may have either shorts or opens most likely due to cold solders. Also make sure when you solder the wires to the TE motherboard, you solder do not short out the resister row underneath. If you look the photos I took, you will see a blob of solder right on the edge. My suggestions is to buzz/check out the wires 1 by 1 using a multi-meter.
After checking the board for bad points, I took a closer look at rows 1-9 and A-H. The good news is that everything works fine now, the bad news is that row 1-9 was installed backwards my first attempt.:looney:
Thanks for the support!
Signed,
The Fricken’ Idiot!
TE wiring
Will this guide work directly with a TE? I want to dual mod my 360 TE, but I do not want anything to show (no extra holes/cuts/etc). I’d like to get an Imp + Cthulu, but I want to make sure the wiring is the same. Is it?
thanks for the diagram faux123, that will really help alot with modding my te stick
Yeah, the pcb’s are pretty much identical. They just show up differently when plugged into a computer.
Question about what type of wire to use.
I bought a 100ft spool of 22 gauge hookup wire, Type AWM.
Rated 300v
Is that going to be okay to use or should I specifically use the Kynar AWG wire from eBay?
It can work, certainly. But with the multiple small soldering points side by side, you’ll have to take extra care when hooking everything up to get connections that are solid and don’t stray and touch other points. Everything uses very low amounts of current, so there won’t be any difference in performance, its only a questions of how difficult the soldering job will be; with thicker wire, it may be a bit harder.
i read this thread thouroughly and and having issues with my te stick.
it’s not powering up at all.
i think i’ve done a clean solder job.
i used an ohms meter to make sure that none of the solder points were touching and that there’s continuity between each end.
got rid of any wire shaving that could be resident on the boards.
i’ve tried the hold on the home button and on both systems and nothing, my pc doesn’t even register the stick.
most of my wiring was based off of faux123’s diagram.
i’m clueless from this point as could what be wrong.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks!
Toodles will probably be able to help you the most, but I think that blob of solder on the right-most red wire in the first pic is way too large. Maybe you should remove the excess solder and reattach the wire.
thanks for your reply.
i was having issues with that particular point.
so after several attempts i finally for a good solder but there was no continuity between the solder and the electronic component directly in front of like like the others do.
so i had to make a big enough blob so end of the wire and the electronic component directly in front of the solder would have continuity.
i made a usb jumper cable from the mc pcb and it works as it should as if it were only for an xbox. this at least indicated that there’s no problem with the mc pcb in terms of something being broken or shorted out.
can anyone please advise on my issue?
thanks
ok so what i did was hooked up a usb cable to the cthulhu board, it registers in windows and it works fine on my ps3; all the buttons register.
so i think the problems lies within the imp board.
i’ve tested continuity between all lines and everything comes up just fine fine, even the guide button lane works but the imp board is just not operating.
i know i could get this to work if i were to mickey mouse up rocker switch but i want this to be a clean install.
i still need help is anyone knows on how to resolve my issues.
Not quite the imp board. It looks like you have the VCC wire from the Imp going to the row 1 column V point, but there’s nothing connecting it to the proper VCC that powers the boards. Take a small piece of wire, and put it in where the #1 diode should be, or desolder the wire from row 1 column V, strip some insulation off of the end and screw it into the VCC screw terminal.
thanks toodles, that did it!
thanks bomberman
and thanks faux for the te diagram!!
