Posted by BiG^DoG on 15, 2000 at 12:25 PM:
In Reply to: Re: Well, she's 99% done but I have some troubles posted by johnpurs on 15, 2000 at 11:04 AM:
What I was asking was if I connected to the NO and ground for the buttons generating no input at all I should not get continuity UNLESS I press the button. Therefore, if I press the button and continue to get no continuity then I know I have a problem ... But... is the problem with the ground wire (unlikely) or the hot wire?
Basically I'm trying to find the easiest way to troubleshoot lack of signal at each point. My connection setup is as follow:
Buttons and joysticks to a DB25 (female)
DB25 (male) connected to the end of an IDE cable which is plugged into the KE72
: Actually you should NOT have connectivity between the NO (Normally Open) switch and the Ground on the encoder. The ground should be hooked to the COM (Common) on all of the microswitchs. The Normally open is where you use seperate inputs for each button. Pressing the button "shorts" or closes the normally open circuit and generates the programmed keystroke for that input. I hope this helps. Good luck.