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Title: arkanoid spinner pinout needed
Post by: menace on July 03, 2004, 06:32:37 pm

Does anyone have an arkanoid who could take a picture of the spinner guts for me?  I need to see the color of wire going to each lead to figure out which pin is which.  Thanks in advance

Title: Re:arkanoid spinner pinout needed
Post by: jerryjanis on July 03, 2004, 09:41:07 pm

Here's a thread with a couple of picturs of some other optic boards.   I have been able to figure out some optic boards from similar pictures by tracing the circuitboard and seeing which ones go to the resistor:

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=9837;start=msg73421#msg73421

Title: Re:arkanoid spinner pinout needed
Post by: menace on July 03, 2004, 10:09:31 pm

cool!  thanks--I'll see if I can piece it together based on that.  I'll post pics back in that thread for a running spinner pinout page.

Title: Re:arkanoid spinner pinout needed
Post by: MrBond on July 03, 2004, 10:15:02 pm

I have an Arkanoid running on my cab.  The pinout is as follows (left to right)
Green     Black     Red     Blue
X1        GND      5V       X2

As far as the placement, here's a cheesy picture (sorry my cam is not very good at closeups)

Title: Re:arkanoid spinner pinout needed
Post by: menace on July 04, 2004, 08:45:09 am

Thanks--I have that exact setup and it doesn't work so I suspect I have a spinner optics failure or the optipac isn't registering it (unlikley since the trackball works fine--but you never know)  Guess I'll try replacing the optics and see if that helps...

Title: Re:arkanoid spinner pinout needed
Post by: Aceldamor on July 04, 2004, 11:08:02 pm

Quote from: jerryjanis on July 03, 2004, 09:41:07 pm

Here's a thread with a couple of picturs of some other optic boards.   I have been able to figure out some optic boards from similar pictures by tracing the circuitboard and seeing which ones go to the resistor:

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=9837;start=msg73421#msg73421

heh...glad to know i've contributed at least a little to this hobby that benefits everyone else  ;D

Title: Re:arkanoid spinner pinout needed
Post by: Kremmit on July 05, 2004, 01:23:51 am

I got an Arkanoid spinner recently in a box of parts.  It looks good, but it buzzes like mad.  I don't remember it doing that when I played it at the pizza place unless you spun it really hard (like when you were heading for that warp/exit thing on the side).  

Is my memory messed up, or is something out of whack with this spinner?  Were the gears lubricated or anything?  

Title: Re:arkanoid spinner pinout needed
Post by: RayB on July 05, 2004, 01:46:30 am

I have one too. It does pretty much the same thing.
You have to remember that when installed in a solid commercial quality cabinet, the control panel dampened much of the noise.

On the other hand, it could certainly use a cleaning + re-lube.

Title: Re:arkanoid spinner pinout needed
Post by: Kremmit on July 05, 2004, 11:19:03 pm

Mine's already really clean- like mabye it was never even used.  But there's no sign of ANY lube on it... that's what I was wondering about.  Where did you lube yours, on the gears, the shafts, or both?  What did you lube with?

Thanx!