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horseboy:
Many of the wheels on Ebay have encoder wheels, but not the optic boards. The 3 I got didn't have optic boards, but I got these..
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=48855.0
Highly recomended. They also eliminate the need to worry about the Off Road wheels as well.
Kremmit:
--- Quote from: horseboy on June 15, 2006, 12:45:45 am ---Many of the wheels on Ebay have encoder wheels, but not the optic boards. The 3 I got didn't have optic boards, but I got these..
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=48855.0
Highly recomended. They also eliminate the need to worry about the Off Road wheels as well.
--- End quote ---
Not necessarily. Some Off-Road wheels have a cup-shaped encoder, rather than the more traditional disk-shaped one. These need a curved optic, like the one you see on Missile Command trackballs, and the ones in the recent Pole Position Wheel thread. Cup-shaped encoder wheels wouldn't work with those replacement optics.
NoOne=NBA=:
I've gotten Oscar's older-style optic boards to work with my Off-Road wheels, but not the newer ones.
The newer ones he has have the sensors closer together, and the curved wheel won't fit through them.
The only thing needed to interface the older boards to the wheel was a couple pieces of foam tape.
They just tape right to the existing mounting bracket, and work.
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