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Pole Position wheels with an Opti-Pac - A Mini HOWTO
trcroyle:
Well I can only refer you to other discussions on this topic. http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=6101.msg44610#msg44610
At least three board members have tried connecting the second type board and got garbage (which two of us describe as a "jiggling" mouse pointer - I suppose we could both have dirty circuit boards though my second test board was pretty clean), and at least two of us have bypassed the extra electronics to create boards that work with an optipac. If these boards are directly swappable on an actual Pole Position (and that's purely hypothetical, since no one has tried that to my knowledge) that really has no bearing, since for all we know PP PCBs may have been designed to handle either.
--- Quote from: Silver on June 12, 2006, 05:33:46 pm ---If the boards can be swapped, then I doubt it. The signal these boards send out is simply a series of 'pulses'. Technically it's a 2-bit Gray encoding (If I recall the term correctly). It's quite simple, but a lot of optical devices use it.
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Silver:
Ah right - reading that looks like pole position boards with the chip decode the signal to a different format. So looks like I was wrong - although this also means that those poleposition boards with the chip will NOT be compatible/swappable on a polepostition board that uses the basic board.
Popcorrin:
I hooked the complex version up to a mouse hack and it worked just fine.
trcroyle:
--- Quote from: Popcorrin on June 13, 2006, 04:49:03 pm ---I hooked the complex version up to a mouse hack and it worked just fine.
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Huh? Do you mean you replaced the circuit board with one from an optical mouse? We're discussing using the original board, without needing any extra parts (other than a tiny bit of wire).
dirt:
--- Quote from: trcroyle on June 13, 2006, 07:37:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: Popcorrin on June 13, 2006, 04:49:03 pm ---I hooked the complex version up to a mouse hack and it worked just fine.
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Huh? Do you mean you replaced the circuit board with one from an optical mouse? We're discussing using the original board, without needing any extra parts (other than a tiny bit of wire).
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in this case the mouse hack would act as the optipac. so you could use the unchanged newer board with a mouse hack directly into the computer or you can modify the newer board and connect it to the optipac then to the computer.