i got innex metal dance pad

katanaman · Basic Member Joined: 22 Aug 2005

as said in my earlier post, i have gotten the http://www.innexinc.com/index.php?nav=itemDetail&tablename=ddr&id=22 and i juss received it today. Its pretty good so far

and i checked the sensors and they arent 2 small strips of aluminum like other cheap pads, so thats a plus i guess. The bad thing is that it has little lights that lite up when u press a buttin, and i believe this is a feature of the TX-1000 too...well i'll post pics later and tell u if it gets worse or not
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katanaman · Basic Member Joined: 22 Aug 2005

heres sum pics:
thats the toolkit it came with

thats the pad itself

the control box afar

control box close

this is da conducting foil...as u can see it is not little tiny aluminum strips

this is the copper circuit

oo it glows in lite

ooo in dark yay

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mtwieg · Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 9:22 am Post subject:

That actually looks like a very solid pad. At least a step above the afterburner in terms of construction. Do the arrow panels seem durable?

jjang1993 · Trick Member Joined: 05 Aug 2005

wow! by the way this pad LOOKS it seems better than the AB but not as good as the CB. the panels dont look bowed up. just one problem could occur. the foil rippinng but that could easily be fixed with the sheet metal mod. according to the product description this pad has polycarbonate arrow panels so they wont crack like the TX-1000-2000s. thats what im guessing
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mtwieg · Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 2:33 pm Post subject:

the TX series uses polycarbonates, but not all polycarbonates are equal. And, as he said and the pictures demonstrate, it does not use foild contacts.

jjang1993 · Trick Member Joined: 05 Aug 2005

[quote="mtwieg"]the TX series uses polycarbonates, but not all polycarbonates are equal. And, as he said and the pictures demonstrate, it does not use foild contacts.[/quote
i thought the TX-1000 though 2000 used acrylic panels that cracked easily
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deM' · Trick Member Joined: 10 Apr 2005 Location: Southington CT

Uhm... That is a peice of conductive FOIL on the bottom of the panels, exact same design and circuit as the tx-1000. I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the two from that picture. They look like the exact same quality polycarbonate peices, just screenprinted differently. The more i see this pad the more it IS a tx-1000.

The people that make the tx-1000 distribute it to hundreds of online vendors with the option to rebrand it. That's all this is, a rebranded painted tx-1000.

katanaman · Basic Member Joined: 22 Aug 2005

hmm it would suc if it was gonna break easily... well so far so good neway and i dunno if this is supposed to be rite but the tiles bend down to activate the sensor would that be bad??? well they dont seem at all brittle so i guess it wont crack for now...also when i lift the tiles i cant seem to find the led lites newhere so maybe they r under the foam and circuit somehow?
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deM' · Trick Member Joined: 10 Apr 2005 Location: Southington CT

The leds are between the arrow plastic and the black foam on the bottom of the arrow if i remember correctly

katanaman · Basic Member Joined: 22 Aug 2005

ooo ok thx
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neworder · Basic Member Joined: 13 Aug 2005

Price is pretty cheap. $200 Shipped for 2 pads.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8216487543

katanaman · Basic Member Joined: 22 Aug 2005

yah thats the seller where i got mine from
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[TCO] Patrick · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:39 am Post subject:

Looks like an 8 button version of a TX-1000. Nice arrow design though.
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ITG can go beyond level 10? Woah...

katanaman · Basic Member Joined: 22 Aug 2005

welll the pad survived its first ddr/halo party so yay

but just in case im goin to give it the sheet metal mod tommorrow...still worx great tho

ill tell u if it stays dat way...o and i been using sox on it at first and didnt really cut me at all cept maybe a few sore toes tho...but now im using ceap 3$ kungfu shoes from the chinese market and they work pretty well actually lol
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[TCO] Patrick · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 3:02 am Post subject:

After about say 2 weeks time, your down arrow will possibly die. Just a heads up.
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William Howard Taft wrote:

Japanese arcade dancing simulations are built upon a strict code of honor and pride.

videoCWK wrote:

ITG can go beyond level 10? Woah...

Bryo Chan · Basic Member Joined: 01 May 2005

Woah, I have those same 10 pound weights as you..Couldn't afford the 15's. Nice Pad By the Way, looks like a good deal?

katanaman · Basic Member Joined: 22 Aug 2005

lol yea i got those weights from walmart lol so yea so far the pads workin ok still...i went to homedepot today and got metal to do the metal mod on mai pad and yah it worx good now and hopefully this will somehow make it last? o well lol thats it so far
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kyj197 · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 6:02 pm Post subject:

jjang1993 · Trick Member Joined: 05 Aug 2005

sorry for bumping this topic, but how is this pad holding up so far?
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slugg · Basic Member Joined: 25 Sep 2005

im also interested in how its holding up....

Would you mind taking pics of the pad with an arrow off? I wanna see what kind of surface it rests on...