So I’ve modded my stick quite a few times and done other little electrical things here and there. There are these little twist top thing you can buy to put two separate wires together. Can someone link me to the type I would need for standard fight stick button wires. The same type used in say a Qanba Q1/Carbon… your help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Most wiring jobs use between 22 and 26 AWG wires. You’ll need twist-on wire connectors for that gauge range.
Are you asking for wire nuts?
They come in multiple sizes
Don’t do your stick with these, it looks ghetto. Plus the Wire nuts can become undone.
Go with something like a barrier strip or crimp-on connectors instead.
Yeah, avoid them wire nuts like the plague. I suggest couplings and even couplings can be cumbersome and unsightly, I’ve my share of couplings I had to use due to running out of wire, good times. If you can solder, you’re better off connecting wires that way, less parts involved with a solid connection, little shrink tube and done, like nothing ever happened.
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When all is said and done, better off replacing the entire length of wire. It works and looks best, wire is cheap. Coupling jobs are meant to be momentary anyway.
Agreed.
Only time I do wire splicing is when I need the header/connector from one wireharness to attach to another and I am forced to salvage or cannibalize parts; or when the tools to install/crimp on a connector isn’t available.
Lastly there the one time I needed to make a audio cable for my Neo Geo MVS board, and I went with a wiresplice from the board header connector (4 Pin JST ) to a TSR female audio jack as I needed to put some attenuation resistors on the line anyways. So at that point it was worth it to me to solder together two seemingly unrelated cables as the splice is housing the resistors needed. Also the cable coming from the Audio cable is well shielded.