hooking up a spinner, Problems

[Brad Lee]

Got around to connecting my spinner tonight and am having some problems.

THe spinner and bearing itself is from an Omega Race panel. The encoder wheel and optics are from Oscar- disc is the larger Pro model and the optics are the universal optic board. THe interface is the OptiPac USB

I've got my conenctions from the Optics to the Optipac +5v and Gnd, and the optics S1 and S2 to the optipac player1 rotary x1 and x2

When I start Tempest and spin the spinner, it just kind of vibrates the claw, back and forth from one segment to the next and back

The tball and rotary jumpers are both set on A/LO, and the other jumpers are on USB and P1+2
The spinner is the only deivice connected to the optipac

Any ideas on what the problem is?

[Brad Lee]

Fixed- nevermind!

turns out I had the spokes of the encoder wheel "too deep" into the optic sensors so the leds were just hitting the oslid part of the wheel. Turned the board jsut enough so that the spokes pass thru the very tip of the optics and it's all good


Time for tempest