broken right arrow on metal pad

[necorn]

hey guys
for a while now after i modded my mat the right arrow was acting up a bit, sometimes not working for a few seconds then all of a sudden working again
there are days where it only acts up for a few minutes then works perfectly for hours.
sometimes when i tighten or loosen the screws holding the brackets down on each corner the arrow seems to work better... dont know if it has anything to do with that or not, but anyway..
so today i got my mat out for a bit of weekly ddr, and guess what the arrow stops working during a song
i think, hey its the usual then play around with the pad a bit to see if itll work again
but still nothing
i opened it up and one of the wires leading away from the sensor had overlapped with another wire and had gotten itself squashed.
heres a picture: (sorry about the quality, my camera sucks)

so im wondering if inside the squashed plastic casing the wires have been severed thus not completing the circuit
if that is the problem, what should i do to try and fix the wires?
heres a picture of my mat with some of the panels opened up


any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

[DAVE101]

First of all, link to your images.

Second, it's a pretty simple fix. Try splitting, stripping, then splicing the wire.
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[necorn]

so is the problem with the squashed wire?
like has this same problem happened before with other users?
i dont want to unnecessarily open up a tiny wire without any skill in that area if there is another solution..

ill get bak and tell you how it went after i give it a go
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