Hello DIY, I hope I'm in the right spot. I have an odd problem, and I don't know where else to look for help, so I'm hoping someone here can help me out because I'm not too experienced with these things.
I bought a Dance Mat off of Amazon several months ago. Despite how cheap it looks, it worked pretty well. And then it just stopped working completely, neither on my PC or my PS2. To be honest, I was being rather careless where the wire connects to the black box at the top of the mat, so since my warranty was up, I popped it open to see if I could spot the problem. Nothing seemed wrong, so I stripped the wire back a bit, and noticed there was one pink wire and one bare wire that weren't attached to anything, but it looked like the pink wire had snapped off of something.
Here is a picture of one side of the circuit board, you can see the pink wire and the bare one to the left. I didn't cut them, they were already that short.
Here is a picture of the other side. This is the only circuit board in the mat.
If anyone has any idea what either of these wires should be connected to, I'd really appreciate any advice! I really don't want to buy another pad just because a couple of wires are lose ): I have a soldering iron, I just don't know where to go from here.
TL;DR, dance mat stopped working because of two loose wires, here is a picture, trying to find out what the wires should be reconnected to.
Thank you so much for your time!
EDIT! Some more pics of the whole thing:
The pad
Other end of the wire
How the box fits onto the circuit board
Inside of the mat
I bought a Dance Mat off of Amazon several months ago. Despite how cheap it looks, it worked pretty well. And then it just stopped working completely, neither on my PC or my PS2. To be honest, I was being rather careless where the wire connects to the black box at the top of the mat, so since my warranty was up, I popped it open to see if I could spot the problem. Nothing seemed wrong, so I stripped the wire back a bit, and noticed there was one pink wire and one bare wire that weren't attached to anything, but it looked like the pink wire had snapped off of something.
Here is a picture of one side of the circuit board, you can see the pink wire and the bare one to the left. I didn't cut them, they were already that short.
Here is a picture of the other side. This is the only circuit board in the mat.
If anyone has any idea what either of these wires should be connected to, I'd really appreciate any advice! I really don't want to buy another pad just because a couple of wires are lose ): I have a soldering iron, I just don't know where to go from here.
TL;DR, dance mat stopped working because of two loose wires, here is a picture, trying to find out what the wires should be reconnected to.
Thank you so much for your time!
EDIT! Some more pics of the whole thing:
The pad
Other end of the wire
How the box fits onto the circuit board
Inside of the mat