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Offline tjweir

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I need help tracing the Viper columns
« on: Wed, 18 March 2015, 08:44:31 »
I'm adding Viper support to TMK[1] and my lack of experience is making it hard to map the columns.

Given the notched bottom of the PCB, I not sure of the columns of the bottom row.
There are 6 switch positions, and I think it starts on Column B, but I'm not sure I'm tracing the paths correctly.

Am I explaining this correctly?  Can anyone help?

Column A - Left side when looking at the keys


Column N - Right side when looking at the keys


Whole PCB


[1] -https://github.com/tjweir/tmk_keyboard

Offline slickmamba

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Re: I need help tracing the Viper columns
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 18 March 2015, 08:51:05 »
No idea how to help you, but I am super intrigued! 
Hi :)

Offline tjweir

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Re: I need help tracing the Viper columns
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 18 March 2015, 08:55:48 »
No idea how to help you, but I am super intrigued! 

:)

My brute force attempts fell short, so I need some help from those who know better.

Offline phoenix1234

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Re: I need help tracing the Viper columns
« Reply #3 on: Wed, 18 March 2015, 09:02:56 »
Maybe someone already did can help you. But if you want to do it on your own, I think the best way to trace is to have a digital multimeter, it will help to trace where electrical connections have been connected. Otherwise, you can ask the Viper owner to provide the schematic of the PCB.
I like linear switches

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Re: I need help tracing the Viper columns
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 22 March 2015, 17:40:50 »
Ok, I grabbed my multimeter and traced the columns. 

Time to get tmk working.