Any success? Do you still need measurements of the TP-MA (microswitches et.c)? Let me know what you need please, I (and many others) wants this really bad.
If you have any kind of cool technical drawings of the JLF that I haven’t seen, they could always help. As it is now, I’ve taken an absolute crap ton on measurements of the TP_MA in a whole bunch of different ways trying to determine the number I need to perfect housing. I’ll be drawing up a new housing shortly, verify it fits well in the full JLF assembly, then redo the PCb with the new dimensions. After that, it looks like its a matter of just choosing the right spacing between the LEDs and it’ll be done. Looking at 4-6 weeks to finalize the housing and pcb, if my measurements are accurate enough. Another 2 months after that for plastic production.
We contacted Sanwa for technical drawing on TP-MA, waiting for reply on it, might come tomorrow.
Oh man, I can’t wait for Optical goodness again. I only ever got to play on one Optical and it made me never want to go back. Then it broke. This was in 2006.
Fucking dreamcast sticks…
That would be swell for the housing, but a good technical drawing of the JLF, if they’d give on, might shed light on how far the travel should be. The only alternative is lengthy trial and error I’ve been doing.
Sanwa said they will send it on Thursday to us (Wednesday is holiday). Did you want technical drawing of the JLF-P-2 also?
It definitely couldn’t hurt, but one for the actuator piece would be helpful.
Ok, JLF-P-2 and JLF-P-5 then. These I can get on Friday for you hopefully.
Toodles, you have PM. Or maybe you don´t answer them, better with e-mail?
PMs from you are fine, its the general troubleshooting ones I prefer be in threads. Mostly because a lot of very smart people will end up answering them before I see them 
I’m eagerly anticipating the drawings. As soon as I get them, I’ll get a batch of pcbs and a housing or two with the new dimensions drawn up and ordered with the quickness.
Sent you PM. Holys*it this will be fun with the new flashy! I´ll send them pics if they have it, no worries.
Here ya go buddy, TP-MA:
http://akihabarashop.jp/images/TPMATechSmall.jpg
BIGGER IMAGE
Hope it helps a little bit.
I may get the other two tomorrow so let´s wait for that. Is there anything else you want?
Coolness.
Score, that has it. Two of the measurements are just the distance fromt he centerline to the mounting holes, which I can get from the Omron datasheet, but the other two, the 23.7 and 13.4 measurement, give the distance from the center I need. Both show a distance 10.6mm from the inside switch wall to the center point, which is the number I needed. My measurements were coming in around 10.8mm, so this is a big boon.
Time to get drawing, that’s going to help quite a bunch Per.
edit: Oh hey, proper thickness of the pcb + housing, too. Score!
Sweet. Always a good day when progress is made.
Fantastic! I am happy that you are happy, I´ll see tomorrow if I get the other two measurements for the other two parts (even if you don´t need them it is good to have). Wohooo!
The man the myth the legend toodles any updates about the flash crusher
God like.
I adjusted both the pcb and the housing so that the holes that the main JLF body and the restrictor plate go through, the holes that are in the microswitches, were correct. Turns out I was off by 0.15mm, but thanks to Per they are now exactly where they should be. I did a copy and repeat on the spark pcb, each one using a LED spacing 0.1mm wider than the previous, so if the housing is working like I think it is, I’ll have 8 different sensitivities to play with when they arrive in just under a week. Order to have the housings milled using a CNC has already been made, and I can’t get specifics about how long those will take but I expect it’ll be about 2 weeks.
I’m not really worried right now about nailing down the exact spacings that give the sensitivity I want; the most important thing is that the pcb’s have a different sensitivity when tested with the housing. If so, then that’ll mean that the sensistivity can/will be adjusted by different pcb spacings. It would mean the housing design is good and ready to be manufactured proper. That’s the expensive, time consuming, nail biting process. Once I get some prototypes of the injected housing, then things will get fun, nail down the most comfortable spacing, and we’re done.
I remember when I bought my last Flash1 at HimuraGames back in the day and FINALLY they will come back!