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Omega Race Spinner
« on: June 29, 2006, 09:17:24 am »
Is a spinner from Omega Race adaptable to a mouse hack?
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Re: Omega Race Spinner
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2006, 09:18:38 am »
no...........its pot based

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Re: Omega Race Spinner
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2006, 10:00:26 am »
KLOV says it's optical.

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=O&game_id=8920

And I know, I used to spin the spinner to spray shots in all directions if I was getting cornered.

Looking at the photo on this auction, it certainly looks like an encoder of some sort and not a pot.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Omega-Race-Midway-Spinner-1981_W0QQitemZ300001826133QQihZ020QQcategoryZ13718QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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Re: Omega Race Spinner
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2006, 10:32:49 am »
well on both my dedicated cabs its pot based......I can get a pic later today.  I can also get a scan or two of the manual.. 

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Re: Omega Race Spinner
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2006, 01:41:52 pm »
That would be odd because...

Page 64 of this manual says encoder: http://www.arcadedocs.com/vidmanuals/O/OmegaRace.pdf

Page 78 lists it as an "Angle Encoder"

The schematics on Pages 95 & 98 lists it as a "Steering Encoder"
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Re: Omega Race Spinner
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2006, 02:21:29 pm »
I've always heard there was something about the Omega Race spinner, here's a blurb I found on the web:

"Midway found the 64-position encoder wheels they were using to be in short supply and substituted a 360 degree pot and an A/D converter board."

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Re: Omega Race Spinner
« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2006, 03:21:13 pm »
thats gotta be it.... I checked the cockpit cp panels that  I have and it has the same pot as the uprigths that I have.

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Re: Omega Race Spinner
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2006, 10:04:57 pm »
There are two versions of the Omega Race Spinner, one with a pot on the bottom, and one with an encoder wheel.  If you go look at www.quarterarcade.com, in the "Control Panel" section, there are pics of several Omega Race panels, you can see the different types there.