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DirtyDachshunds:
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--- Quote from: DirtyDachshunds on July 30, 2010, 09:35:01 am ---
1. Aimtrak. I've seem to read that aimtrak is the way to go for lightguns, but would like recoil on my gun. Has anyone tried the aimtrak with a recoil gun? If so, what gun would you recommend, and how easy/hard is it to configure the gun with the aimtrak electronics.
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There is no support for recoil from the Aimtrak board itself so some kind of secondary circuit would be required.
I've got myself a couple of Happ recoil guns, gutted them and routed the USB and two wires for the 12v supply up the armored cable with the intention of setting up something to trigger the recoil solenoid whenever the trigger is pulled (best solution for me as I'm using mame, system32 and original PC games).
I've looked into setting something up whereby the 12v line is controlled by the trigger microswitch and is connected to a relay to control the low (9v?) voltage that the aimtrak uses but I'm not entirely sure it would work. Also it would only release the solenoid and cause the "recoil" after the trigger was released so that would be kinda lame.
Hopefully someone else could shed a little light on it as a lightgun game without recoil is a little lacking to my mind.
Almost forgot - I'm using a separate power supply (off an old printer) to feed the recoil solenoids - I read somewhere that they put quite a strain on the supply and are quite nasty regarding noise.
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Thanks for the help. I think I may just bypass the recoil and get the gun housing with the aimtrak kit. The extra work and cost doesn't seem worth it. I may add recoil guns in the future.
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