My Steering Wheel Optic board....

[Aceldamor]

OK,

I picked up 2 360 steering wheels and the optic board on them are pretty plain. I wanted to verify what I think is what before I hook it up and end up frying the board.

My only question is:

from left to right would this hook up as...

X1 +5v GND X2

As usual, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

[jerryjanis]

I have a very similar looking optic board from a Sega Star Trek spinner, and it looks like you've got it right.

[Aceldamor]

I appreciate you lookin' Jerryjanis, i'll give that hookup a try....if I fry my board then I know I was wrong.  

By the way, you know of anyplace that has hella cheap  USB mice for sale that still use the ball?

[unclet]

If you have an OfficeMax near you, they currently have a Belkin USB mouse for "free" after rebate.    I am located in the SouthEast, so I do not know whether this is regional or not.

[jerryjanis]

Here are some $2.00 usb mice that I know are hackable.  The shipping on one of them is a lot, but it's pretty much the same shipping price for 1 or 20 of them, so if you buy in quantity it's a steal.

http://order.store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/wg-order?unique=34bfc&catalog=netpcshopper&et=3f835304&basket=5Cd2e188d8005aee3f834bf7e460180e188d80f8a6e41ab7dce43437d4bf370ca

[paigeoliver]

I have a very similar looking optic board from a Sega Star Trek spinner, and it looks like you've got it right.

I have that SAME optic board at home. I haven't tried a mouse hack with it yet, does it work right with a mouse hack or not? My optic board is from a Tac/Scan.

[jerryjanis]

I have that SAME optic board at home. I haven't tried a mouse hack with it yet, does it work right with a mouse hack or not? My optic board is from a Tac/Scan.

Yeah, it works like a charm.

[paigeoliver]

Great, now do you happen to know how to get one of them darn sega vector spinners off the panel? I couldn't seem to get the knob off mine.

[jerryjanis]

Great, now do you happen to know how to get one of them darn sega vector spinners off the panel? I couldn't seem to get the knob off mine.

Mine never came with a knob, so here's a picture of the shaft:



I'm guessing that there might be a hollow pin that goes through the spinner knob and through the hole in the shaft, similar to the one seen in the following picture from the 720 joystick manual:



If your spinner has been used, there's a good chance that the hollow tube is full of sweat/dirt/grease so youll probably need to give it a good scouring to find where the the hollow pin is.

Note:  I'm guessing about the hollow pin, I could totally be wrong, although there is one such hollow pin elsewhere on the Sega spinner.