Product Description
Precision USB Rotary Control with the most strikingly attractive Spinner Tops available anywhere!
What's Included:
1 x SpinTrak Spinner Unit
1 x USB Board
1 x USB Cable
Additional Items Sold Separately:
Knob For SpinTrak Spinner Unit
Flyweight For SpinTrak Spinner Unit
Features:
* Uses Tornado-style Spinner Tops, the best available anywhere.
* Can be used as a lightweight Super High Resolution Low-Inertia Trackwheel control as used in "Arkanoid"
* Can also be used as a spinner with the addition of one of two sizes of fly-weight to provide inertia giving long spin-times of up to 20 seconds.
* Correctly-designed flywheels with mass concentrated at the larger radius.
* Ultra-high resolution. Unbeatable 1200 pulses per revolution.
* Super-tough quality. Unit is manufactured by a supplier of encoders for high-speed motor usage and is almost identical to their industrial unit.
* Dual sealed ball-bearing races give the ultimate in smooth control.
* One-Piece bearing housing/body CNC machined from a solid alloy billet.
* USB 2.0 enables a 16-bit interface and a faster packet-rate than USB 1.1 - Vital to avoid slowdown or backspin.
* Usage not limited to gaming! Also suitable for precision control applications, CNC interfacing and other rotary measurement applications.
Alternitive Connection Methods:
Connection to Mini-PAC Opti Harness:
The Mini-PAC Opti wiring harness is supplied with an adaptor header. The connection from the harness to the SpinTrak should look like this:
Connection to Opti-PAC Board:
For Opti-PAC connection, the 4-pin connector fitted to the device must be cut off and the wires stripped back. They are connected as follows:
Brown | +5Volts |
Yellow | X1 |
Green | X2 |
White | GND |
Connecting Mouse Buttons:
Mouse buttons are connected to 3 pins on the header as shown in the picture above. The COM connection of both switches should be connected to COM and the normally-open connection of each switch to the LEFT or RIGHT pin.
Dimensions:
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Ultimarc spinner unit
Great product. Plug and play and easy to install. I used it to build a spinner steering wheel.
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Spintrack Spinner
Really good product. Well built
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must have
turns your spinner into usb, excellent option if you dont have an i-pac ultimate I/O board
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A High Price for Highest Quality
This spinner and its accessoirs are not cheap – in price as in quality. The optional metal steering wheel is a very nice option, although a little small compared to dedicated wheels. Last, but not least, the software setup is as easy as possible via the USB adapter that maps the spinner(s) to mouse axes, which in turn makes the Spintrak completely OS independent. I am using two of them with a Raspberry Pi and the Linux-based RetroPie OS in my upright arcade cabinet. Some useful links (I hope this is allowed in reviews here): - Setup in RetroPie: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Spinners%2C-Trackballs%2C-Lightguns%2C-and-other-Mouse-Devices/ - A list of arcade games for spinners, wheels etc.: http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/Spinners_and_Dials#Which_games_originally_used_a_spinner.2Fpaddle.3F - The sensitiviy / turn count of various games: http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/Spinner_Turn_Count
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Best in class
The real thing. have been playing Arkanoid in the Arcade Halls, and this has the quality and the feel of the original. Highly recommended. Documentation on the Internet could be better.
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Meraviglioso
Uno spinner assolutamente perfetto, ne ho due su due diversi cabinet (uno di guida) e funziona perfettamente !
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Totally Worth It
While a spinner is a must have on any multi-game arcade this one is the bomb... Smooth and precise
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Stellar Spinner
Finally bought a spinner, and what a difference it makes! Can finally play games that were a struggle with no issue. Easy to get running under OS X, windows,etc Don’t put it off.. buy one!
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A nice spinner, indeed.
It is the perfect spinner for me. Solid metallic construction, smooth working, very accurate,...and very easy to install and to configure.
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Surprisingly good.
Nice finishing, works well with Mame on Windows, spins silently and freely. I strongly recommend it for compatible games like 1000 Miglia: Great 1000 Miles Rally.
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A must for driving games
I was unsure at first to add a steering wheel to my machine... Best thing I did. Bought the spinner with the steering wheel. Easy to mount, just a 28 mm hole. Set the settings in mame to however you want it, you can change sensitivity etc. Plug it in via usb, if it moves the curser left and right your ready to rock and roll. I bought some normal plastic foot switches off the Internet to work with this and it works fantastic. Had trouble with the spinner at first as no response. Turns out the circuit board was dead. Sent it back to arcade world they replaced it no quibbles, job done. If your playing (mame) - outrun, pole position, chase hq you need this It's awesome!
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Must have for spinner games!
This is simply a must if you like spinner games! Arkanoid, Puzzloop etc just not the same without! Looks great, works great is great nothing else to say about it really. Installs really easy in a 28mm hole and plugs into the USB to be recognised as a mouse basicly. Mounting the Knob can be a little fiddly to get it to run true but is sound once done and spins very freely. If you get the seperate wheel attatchment you could even play some of the basic racing games in Mame!