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SirPoonga:

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because I brought up the idea of a USB OptiPac
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Do you know how many people want that!!  I would for one.  I thought of that last year when I first saw the optipac!

Howard_Casto:
about placing your pedals.......

my cab was designed with such things in mind, it's just I've never gotten to them yet......  ;)

My cab insted of having a flat front is a polygonal shape... one slender panel(about 1.5 feet wide) in the front and two panels at angels connecting this panel back to the sides.....

What does that have to do with anything?

Well What this means is the front door of my cab opens vertically rather than the usual horizontal way.....
inside my cab i already have the floor slightly raised....
When I decide to make my steering wheel rig, i'll cut my front door in half horizontally at the middle(or however i have to do it to make sure my coin door is on the top half)  and make it into one door that folds up and another door that folds down....
This way when i open the lower door my pedals will pop out and be ready to go.....
No cumbersome hookup, no nothing.... they're always ready...
combine that with my modular panel design... (My entire cp box is removable, not just the top of it like other cabs.)  And I can plug in an angled panel with a wheel a shifter and a couple of buttons on it and be ready to go.

Btw the inside of my cab has enormous real estate.... The way my door is setup I could easy put about 5 boxes in it and still get them out easily.  I don't even have to open the door the way my cab is designed.   The key is not to put a top on the portion of you cab that holds the cp box.  This way you can store a few cp boxes underneath vertically.  When you need to change you pick up the current box, set it aside, pull out the new box and put the old one back in it's place.... one simple connection and your ready to go!

Ok I'm rambling I know, just thought I would share a few of my ideas on the carpentry end of things, which a rarely do.
:)

Frobozz:

--- Quote ---Do you know how many people want that!!  I would for one.  I thought of that last year when I first saw the optipac!
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Yea, same here.  That's when I sent an email to Andy asking if there was one in the works.  From our mailings, I got the feeling it wouldn't be a problem for him to slap one together (he may already have one), but the whole software issue prevents him from marketing it.  

If a USB Optipac were to come out, it would require a Windows driver, which had to be installed, and most likely a MAME patch to get it to work with it; though I feel the latter wouldn't be all that hard to accomplish if the previous one was.  

enemyace:

--- Quote ---(snip)...just thought I would share a few of my ideas on the carpentry end of things, which a rarely do.
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Howard,

Do you think you could take some detailed pics of the construction that you're describing? It sounds really interesting and I'd love to see it.

-Andy

They make alarm clocks for that type of thing... sleeping dragons. =)

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