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electricd:


--- Quote ---I guess I'm doing something wrong... my trackball and mounting plate cost as much as your entire cab.
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I second that!  I bought most of my parts directly from Happ (trackball, buttons, sticks, monitor, coindoor, etc), plus an IPAC4, OptiPAC, and Oscar's Spinner!  I think I have about $1600 in my cab, but I wouldn't change any of it.  You get what you pay for some of the time, and I believe that when it comes to a cabinent you plan on spending a lifetime playing, you really can't go cheap!

ED7

Trimoor:

One thing I think is a complete waste is the opti-pac.
Sure, it's well made and works great, but a mouse hack is soooo much cheaper.

Unless you don't know which end of a soldering iron to hold (go ahead, guess ;) ;D )
you should do a mouse hack.

As for my project, if I can't find a cheap encoder on ebay, I might just end up making an encoder myself.

electricd:


--- Quote ---Sure, it's well made and works great, but a mouse hack is soooo much cheaper.

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Well at the time I built my cabinet, I was told it was the best/easiest way to get the trackball and spinner control hooked up.  I have to agree that it is VERY simple to setup and I haven't had a bit of trouble with it.  I do now, however, agree that a mouse hack would have definately been cheaper!  Either way, the optipac mounted next to the ipac4 looks cool in my cab!

ED7


Trimoor:


--- Quote from: electricd7 on August 09, 2004, 03:58:31 pm ---The optipac mounted next to the ipac4 looks cool in my cab!

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So take the mouse out of its case and mount the board next to it.

Or take useless scraps of circuit board and mount those in the cab.  No one will know but you......... ;D

electricd:

But knowing is half the battle! :)

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