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Yoke Proto-Type Pictures (More Pics added)
Xiaou2:
Further inspections and thoughts...
If you turn the thing left (or right) and hold it there... then press forward with the grips... even If the thing is mounted to a narrow base - it looks like your fingers will hit the base.
There dosnt appear to be enough clearence for the thing to move forward - except when the thing is centered.
Tailgunner:
Xaou2 is correct about the Roadblasters wheel. I own one, along with 1.5 Atari XY yokes and a first generation Gamecab yoke.
As to the gears, Charlie is using a courser tooth pitch than Atari did. The chance of slippage is pretty slim, though the ones in my first generation yoke felt a little notchy till they wore in. As far as the accuracy, it's a matter of matching the gear ratio to the pot's travel. The Atari yoke has around 80 degrees of movement to cover the full range of a 5K pot. A PC is expecting 100k pots, though there's no reason you can't use half the travel of a 200K pot of a quarter the travel of a 400k pot to get the proper range of resistance values. The last example would give you 0 to 100K in 90 degrees of travel, using a 1 to 1 gear ratio and small gears.
Lilwolf:
Tailgunner, you have one new problem with what your saying about the pots.
Andys new analog apac reads the top / bottom to determine the location. This SHOULD be more stable (especially with some older analog controllers that jump around a bit).
The trouble... it will have problems with pots that only use a portion of the rotation. Not horrid (just need to get in and calibrate) but something that he should consider.
Anyone producing analog controller for mame cabinets should probably take a close look and make sure it works with a A-Pac... It would be like writting a webpage and not test it on IE.
Hoagie_one:
looking forward to this.
daywane:
looks cool to me. as far as the debate.
Huh?
what ?
parden me?
scratch head?
I must be blond. ;D
does it work
cool ..sell me one will ya.
16 mill would be fine for me. that is how thick your floor board is in your car.
I do not need it to take on a nuke blast. just a few teens. i am not putting it out for publick use 24 -7 .
just maybe 3 to 20 hrs a month.