As mentioned in an earlier post, I'm considering purchasing pne or two Aimtrak guns for my cabinet, but before I do so, I'll need to determine whether I can successfully mount the sensor bar. A couple years ago, I bought one of the de-cased sensor bars from Ultimarc, but I never got around to experimenting with it. It's been sitting in a box.
A few questions for Aimtrak users and/or Ultimarc.
1) I realize most people mount them on top of the monitor, but for a variety of reasons, my only viable option would be to mount it on the bottom. Is this an option? Is it comparable to a dophin bar, which offers an option to mount it in either location? Or would performance be severely impacted if I were to mount it towards the bottom?
2) Does the sensor bar have to be mounted in a certain manner? Ideally, I would want the side with the single LED to be mounted on the left (which would allow the sensor bar USB cord to come out the bottom of the unit and into my cabinet), and the side with the multiple LEDs to be mounted on the right. Would this work, or is this upside down?
3) Is there any way to test whether the LEDs are working without actually hooking up a gun? As mentioned, my de-cased sensor bar has been sitting in a box for quite some time, so I'm not 100% sure it works. I thought had heard you can see whether the LEDs are lit by taking a picture of the unit with a cell phone while it's powered, but I tried that and couldn't see any indication that the LEDs are active.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Jim