As I have got a lot of desk space, I considering was modding A Logitech G25 to move most of the buttons from the shifter to the steering wheel. The idea being mount the buttons on the wheel and run a multicore cable back to the shifter and attach it to the pcb directly. I have dismantled the shifter and the pcb looks like this; The 12 grey squares are the pcb connections for the buttons, I was wondering as they dont appear to be a standard metal track, is it possible to connect directly to these. Thanks.
It will be normal trace underneath it. The black is a protector for the traces when the rubber peice is used as buttons. Just scrape it down and solder to the traces. Plus all the buttons have a common trace so that saves a lot of wires.
THP Dans got the right idea. Make sure you "tin" the traces and wires before you attempt to join them, it make soldering that much easier.
Why solder to the button pads? that will make the mod irreversible. If you follow the tracks and solder to the pins of the connectors you can still use the board as is
+1 for the little silver pads. They all connect there anyway. Count em up 12 + ground (the thicker trace all up the right side.
Thanks for the suggestion. I looked into this and I dont think its possible as the traces dont go directly to the button pads, there are components along some of the traces (resistors, i think.Not really sure) and on the under side of this board there are connections to an small chip and other traces One of the connectors goes from the pcb to the gear selector and the other one is for the USB lead Also I got a spare shifter off of ebay so its not a problem to be a permanent mod.
