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Title: How does a Midway Wheel Driver Board work ?
Post by: Hantalex on September 26, 2006, 08:43:05 am

Hi,
I recently got a California Speed Sitdown Racing Cab without pcb, so I decided to put my Xbox in there. I hacked a Fanatec Speedster 3 Wheel to the Steering-,Breaking- and Accelerating-Pots and it works really fine.
Looking through other Projects like Mark

Title: Re: How does a Midway Wheel Driver Board work ?
Post by: fredster on September 27, 2006, 02:20:11 pm

Triacs or SCR's are what are used to activate higher voltages from transistors and IC's.

Is the 36V AC or DC? What is the "motor?" Is it a relay?

Title: Re: How does a Midway Wheel Driver Board work ?
Post by: Hantalex on September 27, 2006, 03:57:14 pm

The 36V is AC.
A wiring Diagram is available at tgma the game manual archive, see Cruisin exotica, it has the same wheel driver board as the one I have.
If you look at connector 8 there goes a ribbon cable to the game board. It

Title: Re: How does a Midway Wheel Driver Board work ?
Post by: fredster on September 27, 2006, 05:25:26 pm

I dunno. I wouldn't think twice about trying to give it 12 V to kick it.

Title: Re: How does a Midway Wheel Driver Board work ?
Post by: Hantalex on September 27, 2006, 06:21:43 pm

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Title: Re: How does a Midway Wheel Driver Board work ?
Post by: grantspain on September 28, 2006, 06:45:07 am

of course it won't(is that 12v a/c or d/c),if its a/c you could put some sort of transformer to get 36v(but you would need to put some sort of protection circuit or fuse inline with the output 12v)

Quote from: Hantalex on September 27, 2006, 06:21:43 pm

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Title: Re: How does a Midway Wheel Driver Board work ?
Post by: Hantalex on September 28, 2006, 02:03:46 pm

I guess just pulling the 12v through a transformer will blow the power supply of the fanatec wheel.
Is there a way to make a simple circuit to check if the 12v are on or off and then release the 36v from the cabinet

Title: Re: How does a Midway Wheel Driver Board work ?
Post by: grantspain on September 28, 2006, 03:35:39 pm

i reckon your new steering wheel outputs d/c voltage-you need to prove that first with a multimeter before you do anything else otherwise your gonna blow the poo outta something

Title: Re: How does a Midway Wheel Driver Board work ?
Post by: lkench on September 28, 2006, 09:34:39 pm

Quote from: Hantalex on September 28, 2006, 02:03:46 pm

Is there a way to make a simple circuit to check if the 12v are on or off and then release the 36v from the cabinet