Tron spinner question. Oscar ?

[spidermonkey]

What I wanna know is can I hook up a original Tron spinner to one of Oscars premade mouse hacks or do I have to replace the optics and encoder wheel with ones from one of his spinner models. The spinner currently has a big ass logic board attatched to it and I don't quite know what to make of it. Lets put it this way... whats the easiest way to get it operational with mame ? Thanks in advance for any ideas.

[jerryjanis]

Last I knew, the consensus was that nobody has figured out how to hack the Tron optic board.  I have a Discs of Tron one.

I guess the best way would be to use Oscar's "Universal optic board" and his mouse hack, and keep your encoder wheel intact.

[OSCAR]

There would definitely be some work involved to make a Tron optic board compatible with a mouse or an Opti-PAC.  Basically you would want to bypass the voltage comparators (which require +12V per the schematic) and the 24-pin IC.  Essentially remove the optics from the circuit and rewire them in such they are pulled hi by a +5V instead of the +12V source.  Attached is a schematic of the board, if that helps.

FWIW - My optic board works fine with a Tron spinner.  I modded one and here are a couple pics:

http://www.oscarcontrols.com/tronspinner/TronSpinner-btm.jpg
http://www.oscarcontrols.com/tronspinner/TronSpinner-btm2.jpg

[spidermonkey]

Thanks folks, I think I'll try making a new bracket and fitting a new optic board and just leave the encoder wheel alone. Oscar, if I go this route would you be willing to just sell me the optics and wire that goes with it ? Or maybe you know of a good alternitive like a particular brand of mouse or anything that I could steal the optics out of and fit it to my tron spinner. I have your model 1 spinner in my first cab but I got this spinner back when I bought a whole Tron cp mainly for the trigger stick so I might as well use it.

[OSCAR]

Send me an email about this.  I think I may have some of my old style optic boards left over from before I switched to the new style.

[gl.tter]

There would definitely be some work involved to make a Tron optic board compatible with a mouse or an Opti-PAC.

I just did this successfully, see this thread for details.

Thanks for the schematic Oscar.