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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Gatt on November 08, 2010, 02:49:34 am
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Hi all,
In the finishing stages of my modular panel, and went to connect my Pole position wheel to my optiwiz today, but ran into a problem.
I don't know what cable to use or where to get one?
The PP wheel uses a 4-pin connector similiar to what's found on a PC motherboard, the optiwiz has a number of options for connecting, but I've no idea what to use.
Does anyone have any suggestions, or has anyone done this before?
TIA
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Were it me, I'd just run wires from PP board to optiwiz and solder to the pins on both.
If you have a lot of spare PC or scrap electronics stuff lying around, you could probably find some 4-pin or couple of 2-pin connectors with wires all ready to go you could make a harness out of.
Or order the trackball harness for the optiwiz, cut off the 6-pin connector and replace with a 4-pin connector from mouser, digikey, rat shack or wherever - stow or cut the extra 2 wires. (or ask Randy at GGG if he has a 4-pin connector or harness - he probably has run into this kind of thing before with people hooking up various spinners, steering wheels, etc).
Some PP pinout info (in case you don't already have it):
PP board pinout here (http://actionmush.com/pole_position/)
from this (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=81783.0) thread.
Another related thread here (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=6101.0) .
Depending on what PP board you have, it looks like it could be as simple as matching up G, +5, X1, X2 on the PP board to the same on the Optiwiz (or whatever axis you have free or feel like using on optiwiz - may run into some extra config if you use the Z).
If you have the larger PP board, it's just a matter of removing some junk and running some jumper wires first.
Edit: in 1st pinout link, looks like pic of larger board jumper wires doesn't quite match up with pinout in previous pic. (maybe just example of running jumper wires - not intended to show final result?) :dunno
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I built an adapter board to connect my Championship Sprint (same as Pole Position) controls to. I used standard PC board pins for the Atari connector and used screw down terminals to attach to my encoder (a hacked mouse in my case). You could solder to the Atari optical board since the pads are plenty big. I don't like making permanent mods to old hardware when I don't need to, so I went the other route.
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It's a standard 4-in-a-line pin molex type connector. Radio Shack has it. Any electrical supply will have it.