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jennifer:
Curiously you are not wrong...I went down into the dungeon and pulled the control panel off my BZ with intention to take some pics...Well, aparently I have 2 red baron sticks on there :dunno...Thats the way I got it and after close inspection it is anything but original...Sorry.

PL1:

--- Quote from: jennifer on July 16, 2020, 07:45:40 pm ---I went down into the dungeon and pulled the control panel off my BZ with intention to take some pics...Well, aparently I have 2 red baron sticks on there :dunno...Thats the way I got it and after close inspection it is anything but original.

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Well, that explains the confusion.   :cheers:

Was your cab's boardset/harness swapped/converted to Red Baron (see Technical section here for some conversion indicators) or did someone just put two rare and expensive analog sticks on the panel for farts and giggles?

If the boardset and harness are original, maybe you can test this theory and save a bunch on finding another original BZ stick.   :lol

--- Quote from: PL1 on July 15, 2020, 02:10:10 pm ---Getting back to the question of using an analog stick on original Battlezone hardware -- it's definitely not the right way to wire things, but you might be able to rig a pot with ground on the wiper (tab 2) and the forward and reverse inputs on tabs 1 and 3.

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Unless logic low isn't a bit less than 1/2 of the operating voltage for the inputs (extremely doubtful), the PCB should have no problem dealing with 0-5k ohms resistance from the two Y-axis pots wired lilke 4 variable resistors since it is designed to deal with 0-multiple megohms (open) resistance from a microswitch.

If nothing else, you can sell one of those analog sticks (check out the price here  :o ) and get another original BZ stick to go with the one you recently got.   ;D


Scott
EDIT: Corrected logic level statement since a logic low is what triggers the input.   :embarassed:

jennifer:
They are not hooked up at all, aparently the sticks were just shoved in the holes back in the day (was bought not working forever ago) and the bottom shows signs of water damage and mice...Kind of a shame I know, but it was the inspiration behind operation 27" color vector project, (Red baron, in a Star Wars clone) and will be parted out.

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