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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: clickhea on May 10, 2009, 06:02:08 pm
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my spinner has never worked since i got it, and i always figured it was because it wasnt hooked up correctly and decided to put it off till later.
well now its later, and iam trying to figure out whats wrong.
i have the master version with its own interface board.
the spinner is plugged into its board, and the board is plugged into my pc via usb.
i noticed there is a wire hanging off the harness with a 2 pin connecter, is this suppose to be connected to something on the turbo twist board? i cant find my directions.
as of right now, the spinner does nothing, even in windows.
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my spinner has never worked since i got it, and i always figured it was because it wasnt hooked up correctly and decided to put it off till later.
well now its later, and iam trying to figure out whats wrong.
i have the master version with its own interface board.
the spinner is plugged into its board, and the board is plugged into my pc via usb.
i noticed there is a wire hanging off the harness with a 2 pin connecter, is this suppose to be connected to something on the turbo twist board? i cant find my directions.
as of right now, the spinner does nothing, even in windows.
Doesn't the 2 pin connector connect the board to the actual spinner?
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I just looked at mine.
There is a connection from the Turbotwist 2 spinner to the mainboard. 1 looks like power and the other is connected to the jumper pins on the board (for master if you only have 1).
Can you take a pic?
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(http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/1859/img0483k.th.jpg) (http://img23.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0483k.jpg)
(http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/8536/img0484d.th.jpg) (http://img23.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0484d.jpg)
iam holding the connecter in my hand in the first pic.
dont mind the messy wiring it has to be cleaned up
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You connect that to the pins on the PCB for Master.
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You can barely see it in this pic:
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=51525.0;attach=76987;image)
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do you know which pins those are off hand? i looked at the board and the pins are only labled with letters.. and i cant seem to find the instructions that came with the tt2
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(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=51525.0;attach=103424;image)
Here's another one. FWIW, I had mine incorrectly connected and it didn't blow anything up.
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once its connected correctly, will it move the mouse pointer in windows? (that way i know its working)
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yes
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thanks for your help, i'll report back later tonight
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and i cant seem to find the instructions that came with the tt2
Ask Randy for an e-copy of them or something. Failing that I will dig mine out and scan them for you.
Strange thing is, mine came ready to plug straight into USB with no external pins or whatever and worked perfectly first time, so not sure why you guys' spinners are different. ???
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i noticed there is a wire hanging off the harness with a 2 pin connecter, is this suppose to be connected to something on the turbo twist board? i cant find my directions.
There's nothing out of the ordinary with your spinner. You just haven't yet connected the axis data lines to the terminals associated with the axis you want it to control.
This should help. (http://www.groovygamegear.com/PDF/TT2DOCSNEW.pdf)
RandyT