Optipac or Trackball problems..help please.

[electricd]

Ok, here is my setup.  I have a Happ 3" trackball and an Oscar spinner hooked up to an OptiPac.  I have the trackball going into the trackball inputs, and the spinner hooked up into the spinner inputs on the optipac.  I have had this setup for about 2 years and have never had a problem.  Recently, I have been noticing that the trackball is keeping/stealing focus on its own.  The optipac is supposed to listen to whichever input is giving it current and give focus to that device.  The problem is that when I want to use my spinner, I have to rotate it constantly for about 5 seconds before it becomes the focous device.  Then if I don't move it for awhile, the trackball steals the focus and I have to rotate it again for 5 seconds to re-activate it.  This makes for problems for games like lunar lander in which you set your thrust and then don't mess with it again until you are close to landing.  I just took the trackball apart and cleaned all the rollers and the ball.  The bearings seem good and it seems to spin normally.  I don't know if this is an optipac problem or a trackball/spinner issue.  Can  anyone help?  Thanks.

[electricd]

anyone?

[Minwah]

This happened to mine too (although as soon as I first tried it).  Andy suggested to me that I swap the spinner & trackball connections round (ie wire the trackball to the 'spinner' inputs and vice versa).

This *seems* to have sorted the problem out...I haven't done a massive amount of testing to know for sure tho.