Broken Ignition Pad

[K0LD]

One of my ignition mats (v3.0) broke a little while ago and I was wondering if anyone knows how to or if it's even possible to fix them, since I'd like to avoid replacing it if at all possible. Specifically, the raised inserts are loose and out of place.

Any suggestions?

[Reenee]

Cut open the top surface, re-align the inserts, duct tape them down, and tape back down what you cut up.

Of course, be careful and think about how you cut it open.

[Vic Viper]

One other question on the Ignition 3.0. I just got a new one last week for free and I'm just wondering how to avoid what happened to my last 3.0, which was the X button auto presses?

So far, I just duct taped the foam together. Actually, I just reused the last foam from the previous 3.0. Also, the new one is the one that came in the black box.

[beatzero]

Notice how I've tried to do this before.



You can't see it too well in this picture, but you can tell that the raised insert moved around because the arrow is darker in some places than others.



Tools I used. Take off the gloves once you start duct-taping.



I cut along here. to make these sort of flaps (the Down one should be twice the size of the others!)...



...which you see here on the cut-open pad, inserts askew.



How I duct-taped the insert to the flap...



...and repeated on all 4 sides. Up arrow's a little tricky.



And it's duct-taped back together. Truth be told, it barely worked from the start and doesn't work now. But that's just me. As for your problem, Vic, it seems that it all depends on cutting the thing open really carefully.

[Reenee]

Question:

My 2.0 will occasionally mis-fire. Can this be done on a 2.0 too? It's my only pad remaining and I feel like shit since I threw away my 3.0 when I could have easily done this.

EDIT- This is a pretty good thread. It's definitely worthy to be kept open and others locked. :P

[-mex-]

I'm guessing some contact is fucked up. I don't know the layout of a 2.0, or any ignition for that matter.

If it's shitty, try opening it anyway.

[Vyszion]

errrr, someone said to post my question here so... w/e

Ok I have owned a Red Octane Ignition pad for about a year now, with mild play, and I just got into DDR seriously =P. So I take the pad out of its box, and noticed the up arrow was freaking up, I messed around in Test Input and figured out when another key is pressed, sometimes the up button will randomly be held down. Since it sometimes does this when I hit down, left, or right, I was thinking some wires got crossed, and it wasen't the sensors. But I opened it up to check the wires and the foam...

First, when I first bough the pad I was to lazy to put it back in the box, and it had nowhere to lay flat, so I just left it standing up for months on end, with very mild play, so now the foam is bent... And when I push down on some parts of the foam, other parts (especialy around the top arrow) push up... So I took out the foam, it works perfectly.

Any ideas on what to do? If my foam gets bent this bad is it shot? Anyone had this problem before? and know any ways to fix it? My two options I see are reinforcing the foam so that it stays straight, or pressing the foam down for several days.

Also is it hurting the pad to play on it without the foam? I would doubt it but just wanted to check, don't want to break it any more then it is now =P.



Edit...
Duh, I flipped the foam, it works like new, ugh spent like 3 hours trying to flatten it under stuff, I fell dumb now ><. If anyone else is having similar problems definatly try this before cutting it up =P.

[ΩOMEGAΩ]

this is definte keep thread, i wish it was a sticky, or there was a new sticky on how to fix dance pads. hell one of us should make one!

[ceraf]

common problem for ignitions, other than the drifting inserts...the porous foam separating the two plastic layers wears out. Either salvage some foam from a good soft pad (aka konami) or make holes in some new foam.