So I went to town on actually hooking up the buttons last night. This was a piece of cake compared to the RGB drives and went rather fast since I was somewhat confident on the stripping/tinning/crimping parts now. After hooking up the buttons, I still needed to daisy chain the ground wires together for each of the buttons. I did not even need to tin the wires because I was using 20 gauge wire I had picked up from Fry's and it was plenty thick and secure after crimping.
I cut 10 lengths of 6" wire (few extra just in case). Stripped both ends of each and grabbed my crimpers!
Two ends of 20 gauge wire twisted together fit perfectly into my .187 Connectors.
Ahhhh, my first ground chain.
Side Note - The ratcheting crimpers I borrowed from my friend totally rock and are 100 times better than the crap ones I had. You can get a pair very cheap here. I think I'll order myself some eventually.
Hooked up all my buttons with my ground wires and plugged the two USB cables in (one for joystick/buttons one for LED-Wiz) and it works!! Its such a great feeling just getting this small piece done! Now I can do all kinds of testing and setup for MAME, LEDs, Mala, etc....
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