1 for the electricians (sort of).

[hodge]

As above really.

I have a Race Technologies Dash2 digital display in my car. The dash has 4 external buttons ive have wired in to control it. Up, down, menu and select.

The circuit works like this. There's a wire for each of these buttons and a common earth. So when the button is pressed the common earth earths the other wire and operating the switch.

 

This is my plan.

I'm wanting to strip apart an Xbox controller and use the joystick instead of having 4 buttons.

Up. - up

Down. - down

Left. - menu

Right. - select.

 

I've stripped a controller down and and to be totally honest looking at the circiuit board, it's way beyond me.

Would anyone be interested in giving this a go for me. All I need is the circuit board to have 5 wires soldered in the correct place for the corresponding 4 buttons and a common earth. But like I said I'm totally lost and don't know where to start.

 

Any help would be great.

Thanks

John

[hodge]

Would this do the trick????

 

http://uk.rs-online.com/mobile/p/joysticks/0516114/

[kjgreen3]

Would this do the trick????

 

http://uk.rs-online.com/mobile/p/joysticks/0516114/

 

Yes that would do it although contacts are only rated at 50mA although I suspect it wont be switching a highly current resistive load probably only momentary switching for the DASH 2 display.

[kjgreen3]

You've probably seen this already on the RS website but heres the pdf specs. for the switch.

 

http://docs-europe.electrocomponents.com/webdocs/0bf3/0900766b80bf35d8.pdf

 

Bottom of page 3 has the pin out showing a common connection you can use as the earth common pin 4 IIRC.