Re: which encoder wheel?

At 07:26 PM 8/6/97 -0700, you wrote:
>
>>>I wonder what encoder Mad Planets uses. I should go check...the knob is
>>>identical to Tempest but I don't know about the internals.
>>
>>*Doh!* Another one! ;-) Does the Mad Planets gizmo have a "decoder" PCB
>>that the spinner talks to? (Or do the quadrature outputs go straight to
>>the PCB?)
>
>Oh, this is interesting...a never-before-seen type of spinner! It's a Wico
>product with a red, fully-enclosed plastic casing. In addition to the
>spinner shaft sticking out of the top, a small white roller sticks out the
>side, so if you mount it 90 degrees off you get a miniature Major
>Havoc-style roller controller! Did anyone else use this?
>
>I can't get into the back of the game right now but there is no PCB between
>the controller and the harnessing. Will check later.
>
>// grigs
>
>
Hey, finally. The spinner you just described is the same as the one
used in Aztarac. There's just four wires so it's probably a quadrature
output.

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Received on Thu Aug 7 17:43:08 1997