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lamprey:
Hi,

I recently picked up a Championship Sprint CP with steering wheels. It needs some TLC to be sure, but I was trying to verify if the optical PCBs are any good. So, I tried hooking them to my U-HID and setting it up as a Quadrature Mouse device.

My assumption is that is the Pin out connector for the Optical PCB  is (X1) (Ground) (5V) (X2), like in this picture:
http://www.ultimarc.com/images/happboard.jpg

If I configure the Quadrature device to be a Button Pair I can see buttons occasionally being "pressed" on the game control config in Windows. Obviously, I don't want that, so when the Quadrature device is set to a axis (say X), does it function like a mouse? Meaning should I see the mouse move around the screen when I turn the wheel?

Based on the intermittent nature of the "button" presses I was seeing, I'm guessing the optical PCB is bad. I'll probably try direct wiring just to verify that the wiring harness doesn't have an issue. However, I wanted to make sure I'm looking for the right thing (a moving mouse cursor) in order to determine if the PCB is working.

Thanks!

Paul Olson:
If you have it set up right, and set as quadrature, it will move your cursor in Windows on one axis, so you know it is working. +5v and ground are normally on the outside of the connector. xi and x2 on the inside.

Paul Olson:
If you post a pic of the encoder board that lets me see the traces, I can tell you for sure.

lamprey:
Thanks Paul,

These aren't mine, but if you look at the pics attached to this post, the right-most PCB looks like the Atari ones I have.

EDIT: I'll double verify when I get home that the traces are the same.

lamprey:
Yeah, the PCBs that I have look just like these (right side):
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=114203.0;attach=172253

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