Re: VECTOR: Omega Race Spinner

Here's an article with instructions on how to build an Omega race optical 
encoder from scratch; gives a little info on how an encoder works with Omega 
race.

Old article from Wiretap (in zip with EPROM, doc, etc):

http://users.rcn.com/jenison/mars/trouble/part/controls/omega_race_encoder.zip

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Marquette" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 7:53 PM
Subject: VECTOR: Omega Race Spinner


>
> Has anyone know a source for a replacement 10K pot for the Omega Race
> spinner?  Or has anyone ever come across an Omega Race that actually used
> the Optical Encoder that is mentioned in the manual?  I'm confused on how 
> a
> pot or an encoder could be used, can anyone enlighten me on how that was
> possible?  I would think that there would need to be changes to the Board 
> to
> allow it but I didn't see any mention of that.
>
> Thanks
> Rich
>
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