Spy Hunter wheel, 1K vs. 5K pot

[TAG]

Long time reader, first time poster....

I picked up a Spy Hunter wheel off eBay and was looking for opinions as to the best way to hook it up to my planned MAME cab. 

Specifically, is there any benefit to keeping the original 1K pot, rather than replacing it with a 5K pot?  If I keep the 1K pot, I assume I'd need to hook it up to both an APAC v.2 (for the wheel) and an IPAC/Key-Wiz (for the wheel butons), whereas if I replaced the pot, I could hook it up to just an APAC v.1 or Dual Strike hack.  Not a huge difference in price (depending on how much the 5K pot costs), so it comes down to whether the different pots make any difference in gameplay.

Anyone have experience (or just an opinion) regarding the 1K/5K pot issue?

Thanks!

[cw]

I hacked a spy hunter yoke into a joystick hack using it for the y axis and the pedal for the x axis.  Nice thing is you that you dont need any special pcb or anything just wiring the 2 axis into a joystick plug will do it.  Once hooked up just add a 2 axis stick to your list of joysticks, and dont forget about your button inputs into the cable as well.

[unclet]

I bought a Spy Hunter steering wheel on Ebay a long time ago and I simply attached it to a Dual Strike controller .... I did not change out any POTs.    Does this mean the Spy Hunter steering wheel I bought already had a 5K pot in it for some reason?

[TAG]

UncleT, yeah, I looked at your pot picture elsewhere in the forums, and I'm almost positive that's a 5K pot, not the original 1K pot.  But if you've had no problems using it (please correct me if I'm wrong), then I suppose that means I can replace the 1K pot with no problem.  I think that's the route I'll take...once I get the wheel off the control panel, of course.  Looks like it'll be a chore. 

Thanks!

[u_rebelscum]

Are you sure you have a 1k POT, and not a 100k POT?  The two prior posts hints that the former had a 100k POT and the latter a 5k POT in their yokes.  The manual doesn't mention the ohm rating, but AFAIK, most arcade POTs are 5k, and most PC 100k.  IOWs, did someone hack the POT replacing it for a PC?

[TAG]

Yes, the pot on the back of the wheel is clearly marked as being 1K.  Other posts I've looked through indicate the same findings.  Spy Hunter seems to be the one exception to the 5K that basically applies across the board.  Which is why I was initially hesitant about replacing it with a 5K pot.  But if others have used it okay that way, then I'm hoping I'll be safe.

[TAG]

Just to be sure, though, if the pot says 1 with the ohm/omega symbol next to it, then that's a 1K pot, right?  Or not?