S-type Remote On/off Switch, Will never accidentally hit it... Options

[blindbug]

Beyond the modchip install and a light in the controller dongle this is the first decent mod I've done for my xbox...

I am too lazy to get up to turn on the xbox and too sleepy to get out of the bed to turn it off at night right before I go to sleep so I decided to put in a remote switch in my controller... I also like things to look clean so just drilling a hole and putting it somewhere was out of the question, so I decided to place it inside one of the never used memory card slots.

Next step was trying to find a way to mount, there are no tutorials for the s-type anyway so I had to be creative and innovative... fooled around thinking of doing some dremel and a switch plate inside the memory slot but was afraid it would crap out in the end so I finally found a solution, heres what turned out (might I mention that I didnt have to drill any nor did I use glue, the switch is completely removable without a trace it was there while still feeling like its screwed to the controller:

Where's the beef?


There's just enough space to put your finger in to power up/off.


Looks like it was designed to be there!


This post has been edited by blindbug: Mar 11 2004, 02:48 AM

[weeman666]

cool i like but if you use a memory card and a live comunicator your fucked haha

[doubleV69]

make a tutoriiiiial please

[Himura]

[balistic2]

Hey i have a question b/c i CAN'T GET IT TO WORK i have been trying for sooo long on the PBC board can i sodder it to the spot corrisponding to the #2 lead in staed of doing it at the spot behind the wires? i tired it and with i connected it to the yellow wire from the controller it turned on the xbox automaticly and wouldn't go off until ill un hooked the wires

what am i doing wrong?!

[mybad]

sounds like your ground is wrong. this system uses stand-by power and the ground as the trigger. So wire 1 side of switch to yellow and 1 to ground and cut yellow inside xbox and wire to pin 2 up the power on panel assembly

[estin]

you could always use the 2nd port behind the one with teh switch for a live headset.

[GimmeTokens]

Buetiful camera

[mckenn88]

[balistic2]

ok i have a power and a ground in the controller i only have a power wire from the button on the pbc to the yellow wire should i have a ground if so where to?!

[flyboy710]

can someone point me in teh direction of a good tutorial for remote on/off?

[blindbug]

[blindbug]

OK, I finally got the little problem lined out... wasn't a problem at all just me being paranoid


Anyway, here is my basic tutorial for the switch in the memory slot on an S-type controller (also works on original with a little modification.

1. Open the controller up and take the memory slot off of the daughter board by just pulling it off and find the corner you wish to have the switch in and locate that corners prong:


2. Place the switch in place (ratshack submini pushbutton 275-1571) with the legs of the switch through the small opening in the bottom of the memory card slot:


3. (although this is a different corner now, you get the idea)... place a piece of heat shrink tubing just big enough to fit the prong and the switch inside over the prong, and after attaching the wires to the switch legs, slide it through the loop of heatshrink. Give the heatshrink some heat to pull it tight, barrel roll it and heat it again, pull as tight as you can with a pair of needle nose pliars to get the switch as tight to the wall as possible:


4. Pull the heatshrink as tight as possible and use a piece of electrical tape to fold any excess over and tape it down so it wont shift:


5. Attach each leg's wires to the daughterboard. One wire to the yellow wire coming from the xbox (the third from the bottom of the controller on an S-type)... and the other to the ground (the bottom one on the S-type):


6. ReAssemble the controller, make sure that the wires are out of the way, and that the switch is tight.

7. Open the xbox and decide which controller port you would like to modify to use as the remote port (be advised that this next step will inhibit the ability of the selected port to use certain things such as xbox steering wheels, etc.)... detach the yellow wire coming from the controller port of choice from the xbox motherboard connector (use a pin or small small screwdriver to disconnect it from the white connectore, or use scissors and just cut it.... extend the wire as needed to reach the right side of the front of the xbox, just to the left of the right controller ports:
(the upper most red wire in this picture is the wire extending the yellow wire from port 1)


8. Disconnect the right controller ports and pull them out for some soldering room. Attach the extended wire to the power button (its the second point up):


9. If needed, use an xacto knife to cut a little dip in the right controller dongle, so not to interfer with the soldered wire:



10. Be lazy and turn your xbox off/on from your couch!



BTW: yes my xbox is lime green (Mountain Dew Limited Edition)

[VBox]

How much did that Mt. Dew xbox cost you? And how did you get it?

[blindbug]