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Atari Steering Wheel - How many teeth for an encoder wheel?

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leapinlew:
Just read up on the hillbilly spinner... gonna try 30 teeth now too

leapinlew:
Success! appears that I needed to move the plastic encoder wheel through some slots on the pcb. I've remounted it with 3/4" ply instead of the 1/4 and it's much more sturdy.

Anyone have any idea what the optimal amount of teeth are?

leapinlew:
Teeth tried:

15 - really choppy
30 - choppy
60 - half as choppy as the 30, but since the 30 was sucky choppy. It still sucks.
300 - smooth like using a mouse
600 - didn't even register

There is probably a good number in 250 or so, but 300 feels real good. Going to go with it. I assume I'll have to adjust the mouse settings for each game anyhow.

Kremmit:
Nice!  300 is higher than anything I've ever seen, except the Arkanoid spinner.  You'll be setting your analog sensetivity well below 100 on most, if not all, games.  Have you tried spinning it really, really fast, to see if any backspin rears it's ugly head?

Was the 15-tooth version the original LeMans wheel?

leapinlew:
There were 36 on the lemans...

I would've used it and tried to increase the resolution in the game, but it was hard to get the mouse pcb to fit.

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