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| ideft:
How hard is it to hook up a TurboTwist 2(a slave) to a Mini-pac?? I am assuming just splicing some wires. But I would like to be sure of this before I buy it. |
| shardian:
A spinner just has one optical board, so you just hook up each spinner to one axis. Basically the same as hooking a trackball up to the minipac. EDIT: A TT2 is an all-in-one plug n play spinner - there is no need to go thru a minipac. |
| ideft:
I would like to go through a mini pac if possible. I was going to order the turbo twist 2(a slave-one without the optical board) just to avoid multiple circut boards in my CP. |
| juggle50:
I am curious about this too. One advantage to hooking a spinner up to the mini-pac is if you have two optical devices (spinner and trackball) the mini-pac will disengage one optical device if you are using the other one. For example, if your playing tempest and are using the spinner, the trackball goes dead so you can hit it accidently and it won't disturb the game. This feature is great if you have a tight control panel or a lapbox type control panel where the optical devices might move if the cp is tilted. |
| WLVRYN:
I know its not exactly the same, but I use the TT2 spinner in the slave version with an Optipac, and it works just fine. I would imagine that the Optipac and Minipac operate similarly. I have my trackball wired to the trackball input and spinner to the rotary input. It works very well, and just required me to strip a couple of wires to get it wired up. I would definitely recommend that configuration. My only problem is that sometimes I use the trackball to select games, so when I try to play arkanoid or tempest, I have to wait a few seconds to start using the spinner (not really a problem though). |
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