Thread: I desperately need pressure mat help

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I have a prop thats a guy in a coffin using 9vdc and he sits up in his little coffin and talks to people. he has a little try me button that someone has to stand and push to trigger him as the sensor on him doesn't work for crap.
We have tried striping and splicing the wires with one of spirits pressure mats to the wires from the try me button and it doesn't work and we have tried stripping and splicing with a screaming doormat wtih the try me switch and that won't work either. My husband works with electronics so he has some experience and can't figure out why the circuit won't complete. Any ideas would be great. Thank you.

Test the pressure mat to make sure that the circuit is completing when you step on the mat. I honestly can't think of any reason that the mat wouldn't work to replace the button, unless there is some voltage running through that button and there's too much resistance in the mat to pass the signal to the circuit board.