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Tommy714:
I have two Ultimarc Spinners, and I want one to be the Y Axis. In order to do this I am going to utilize the Trackball pins on an I-Pac2 for the Y axis. I found a previous post on this topic, but I have an additional question.
My problem is that the wires I've got on my spinner are not in the order stated below. They are Brown, Green, White, Yellow (see picture).
I guess my question is (with the pins visible as in the picture), what order should the wires be? On the I-Pac2 board the order is 5V, Y1, Y2, GND
Here is the link to the old topic:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=160051.0
This is from the original post:
Quote from: Scooby on April 13, 2019, 01:34:36 am
I have a I-PAC2 encoder as well. But it uses the „X“ axis as well and I can‘t find any settings in the WinIPAC tool to change it.
Can someone please give me a hint?
If you aren't using the trackball pins on the I-Pac, pull the Yellow, Green, and White SpinTrak connector pins from the Dupont housing and change the wire order to "Brown-Yellow-Green-White" to use the I-Pac trackball Y-axis pins.
Default SpinTrak Dupont housing wire order: (left)
SpinTrak wire colors:
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Brown +5 Volts
Yellow X1
Green X2
White GND
PL1:
--- Quote from: Tommy714 on January 12, 2023, 04:51:25 pm ---I have two Ultimarc Spinners, and I want one to be the Y Axis. In order to do this I am going to utilize the Trackball pins on an I-Pac2 for the Y axis. I found a previous post on this topic, but I have an additional question.
My problem is that the wires I've got on my spinner are not in the order stated below. They are Brown, Green, White, Yellow
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If you look at the IPAC spinner pins, you'll notice that is the order for them. (upper right)
- If you want to put two spinners on one IPac, I would rearrange the spinner wires to match the trackball inputs.
- Electrically, a trackball is the same as two spinners.
--- Quote from: Tommy714 on January 12, 2023, 04:51:25 pm ---I guess my question is (with the pins visible as in the picture), what order should the wires be? On the I-Pac2 board the order is 5V, Y1, Y2, GND
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That is the order for the trackball pins. (left side)
- Arrange the wires for both SpinTraks in that order.
SpinTrak wire colors:
Brown +5 Volts
Yellow X1 (top row) or Y1 (bottom row)
Green X2 (top row) or Y2 (bottom row)
White GND
Scott
Tommy714:
It worked perfectly, kinda, and I'm not sure why. The wiring harness was plugged into the Y axis on the I-Pac2, and it was moving the X-axis of the mouse. I switched it to the other set of pins (the X-axis), and it worked perfectly. So now that I have a spinner for the X axis and one for the Y axis does anyone know a ROM for an Etch-a-Sketch?
Actually, the purpose of this activity was to have two player ability for driving games like Badlands and Ivan Stewart's Super Off Road.
Works perfectly now!
Thanks
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