Automatic switch

Link89 · Post by **Link89** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 10:27 pm

Where do solder the wires for an automatic switch on the PSX. There's three prongs on the switch and seven prongs on the controller board.

Post by **gannon** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 10:40 pm

You can either wire it so it switches off the controller's ground or the controllers Vs. I'd choose to switch off the Vs.

Link89 · Post by **Link89** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 2:30 pm

Which wires are the Vs. and which are the ground. What does each one mean? As long as I can Plug in a controller and use that to play or the built in one it doesn't really matter.

Post by **gannon** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 3:29 pm

That's something that I don't quite know off hand. Once you look at the controller port in the ps1 it should be pretty simple to figure out though.

Link89 · Post by **Link89** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 3:56 pm

I took apart the controller port so I know where to solder the wires. But now I need to figure out which wires each one stands for. This would help so much if anyone knows. Even one wire.

Link89 · Post by **Link89** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 6:28 pm

Yes, i finally figured it out this one site listed the controller pins and what each one means.

Here's the link
http://home.quicknet.com.au/andrewm/psx ... t/#PINOUTS
All I need to do now is find out which ones to use.

Post by **gannon** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 8:27 pm

Nice, the only difference between the ps1 and ps2 controllers is that the ps2 controller uses the 9V in the port while the ps1 doesn't. This will also help with my autoswitch.

Link89 · Post by **Link89** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 8:52 pm

Yea, I was thinking of using the 1,2 and 4 pins to solder the automatic switch on. What do you think?

Post by **gannon** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 9:00 pm

I'd use only pins 4 or 5.
Pin 4 is probably best.

Link89 · Post by **Link89** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 9:36 pm

Why not the ATT/6 pin.

Post by **gannon** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 9:46 pm

Because if you switch off power or ground, none of the circuitry works, but if you just cut off one data line or something, you'll still be getting interrupting signals when you plug in an ext. controller.