Majin64.. moving along nicely

x24 · Post by **x24** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 12:47 pm

Check it out..
*strikes the big instrumental gong(edit)*
I succesfully Soldered something..
hopefully anyways.. 45 minutes and 3 burns later.. (btw, after spending all that time trying to figure it out.. my throat started to burn.. are the fumes toxic?) here is my result..

I'm going to start to work on my controlls later and charge the batteries im using..

I havent checked my other post yet but I ended up removing the speakers.. Hope I didn't ruin my hipscreen..

Wish me luck..

EDIT: Oops!

Post by **Gamelver** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 1:21 pm

when you say bong, I hope you mean gong

...

looks good so far

. just make sure you have electrical tape between the two boards, to prevent shorts.

Weebl · Post by **Weebl** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 2:56 pm

Looks good. As Gamelver said, you'll need electrical tape between the two boards. Oh, and solder has lead in it, so its not that great of an idea to inhale it. Good job, keep it up (the work, not the inhaling solder fumes)!

CJWJ · Post by **CJWJ** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 3:08 pm

x24 wrote:(btw, after spending all that time trying to figure it out.. my throat started to burn.. are the fumes toxic?)

Oh man, look out with solder. Story time:

The guy from which I buy most of my electronic components was doing a project. He took a break, but forgets to turn off his soldering iron. The thing heats up like hell, he comes back, puts a snip of solder onto it (to wet the soldering ioron good), and the snip literally vaporises.

The sad thing about this is, that he just so happened to inhale, taking the full lead-fumes in. (this was a strand of about 1.5 cm of solder).

The next thing he sees when he wakes up is an ugly hospital-sister. From what I have heard, he lost control of his muscles due to a weird reaction of the body to the lead inhaled.

Mind you, this was a year ago. He stil has trouble remembering stuff, and controlling his arms and hands to write. I volunteered to run his shop for about 3 months while he was recovering.

Moral of this all. Ventilate!!! I kid you not, the stuff kills you.

great pictures x24! WIll be watching the thread closely for progress.

(Edit: Oops)

Greets, Jaco Sloof

x24 · Post by **x24** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:56 am

I wasnt exactly inhaling them on purpose.. I just think I should have had a window open while working on it.. im feeling 'ok' today so I should be alright..

After I wrote the post I actually took the rest of the day off.. gonna wait for my batteries to finish charging before I continue..

speaking of which.. To just mess around with the n64 and see if it works I'm using a battery holder from 'sourceshack' that holds 8 batteries in series(i think, if it ends up being 2 sets of 4 in par, I'll just go get another).. umm anyways.. just off hand, would anyone know which end I send to the regulator and the board and where do I put the other wire..

..The thing heats up like hell, he comes back..

should u only have it on so long.. mine seems to brown after about 5 minutes of being heated up.. is that a bad thing..

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:06 am

if your iron is getting hot enough to boil lead, its waaaaay to hot for electronics.

anyhow, you should have a wet sponge handy to wipe your tip on. this is standard soldering protocol.

and the positive from your pack goes to the 'I' pin of the regulator (the regulated voltage comes out of the 'O' pin. Input/Output. get it?) if the pins arent lablelled, i cant help you further. the negative from your battery pack goes to ground. pretty well anywhere is acceptible, but probably stick it to the midddle pin of the reg just to keep things consistent

x24 · Post by **x24** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:19 pm

thanks, but I already had to ask about the reg.. now I'm mostly asking about the battery pack.. its got one 6 sided figure and a round one.. I just not sure which one went in and out..

Post by **Skyone** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:24 pm

I really like it. The compactness is already showing!

Great jorb.

x24 · Post by **x24** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 5:09 pm

finally found a source shack that had a decent selection of capacitors..

I think I'm going to start wiring that together now and I just wanted to make sure I got this right

dont laugh if I screwed something up.. its been a long 6 years since I took physics..

I just want to make sure befor eI start..

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:46 pm

that diagram is confusing. but i think you got the capacitors a bit mixed up. it looks like you have them in series with things. electricity cant actually flow through capacitors... anyhow. do it like this.

the part number, cap values, and voltage are from a specific application, but all the connections are the same.

x24 · Post by **x24** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:12 am

maybe its early and I dont quite understand yet but shouldnt the battery be facing the other way and I thought the caps were to go between the battery and the DC-DC Reg.. and between the Reg and the MB.. 0_oa

and from the battery.. do u wire it to the pos or neg (short or long wire) on the cap..? EDIT: Found this out already.. (note to self:

)

confusion hits me like a train this early in the mourning ^^a

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:48 am

k. lets go over some basics.

the negative battery terminal is what is used in almost all circuits as the ground. anything that needs a 0V reference or anything like that goes to ground, and ground is considered to be 0V (since voltage is all realative, we could techincally choose positive to be 0V and negative to be -7.2V (or whatever) , but this is just not how its done).

so in this way, you get the proper voltage off of the positive end of your battery pack relative to ground.

capcitors consist of two parallel electric plates that are close together, but not touching (in the round caps they are usually rolled up like a carpet). basicaly when you put a potential across them, what hapens is that the negative plate fills up with electrons, and the positive plate fills up with 'holes' (the opposite of electrons). now remember that electrons and holes attract each other strongly. so you get this dense concentration of both of them on either plate. capcitors are a way of storing energy. electrons cannot flow through a capacitor

so hopefully you can now understand why the capacitors in that picture are oriented the way they are. they store up some extra energy, just in case the circutry needs it, in which case they can provide it. they help 'smooth' out the voltage lines and stuff. they are connected directly from the positive terminal of the power source to the negative terminal, such that they operate at the same potential as the battery. they do not short it out since electrons cannot flow through a capacitor

the picture is labelled correctly. thats the way the battery goes (you seem to have some confusion about negative and positive on things. yes, with batteries you connect positive to negative when you are putting them in series. but you arent putting the caps in series, you are putting them in paralell. this is in fact the same way you would connect a battery in paralell), thats where the 'I"(nput) and "O"(utput) pins are connected to, and thats how the caps go.

x24 · Post by **x24** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:49 am

ok.. thanks a lot.. You just saved me from reading about 4-5 pages of garble.. Going to try to get it all together when I get home..

Wish me luck..

One more easy question (for later reference): I need to extend the reach of the control stick.. I need about 2" more over to the left.. Could I just split the set of wires and reattach it with another set of wires inbetween? I assume I can, I just wanted to check..

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:12 am

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