I have a coin op arcade game called Cyber Cycles by Namco. It is a twin motorcycles game. to determine if the motorcycle is turning left or right it uses a pot. This pot is a 40 Degree 1k potentiometer. I think this has to do with the fact the the motorcycles can only tilt about 40 Degrees to the left or right so somehow the pots have to compensate for this. If you put a regular 1k pot in the motorcycles won't tilt far enough to go around the corners. My question is: What do they do to different to manufacture these 40 degree pots? Has anyone read about these before? Do you think they just disguise a logarithmic pot? Or some other pot? It says 1K and 40 next to the name. They also list 60 degree and 270 degree pots at Happ controls. I took a broken one apart and it looks like all of the other ones. Where can I buy one? Our regular sources want $40.00 each. I don't have a working one left so I can't really compare. Any help here?
Thanks Russ