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New Product: Opti-Wiz
whammoed:
I recieved my opti-wiz. Looks very nice, high quality. Came very well packaged.
Thanks RandyT! :)
Made up a little test rig today and thought I'd share:
Not a must have for me, but at the low opti-wiz price I can afford it. ;)
I will definitely be using these on my next project. Perfect implementation of a mouse interface.
wakerlet:
Randy: Got both Opti-Wiz's this week. They do look quite slick.
So in terms of the molex connector what color wires are Xa/Xb and Ya/Yb for the colors defined on the first page of this post? I've got Purple, Blue, Green and Yellow to choose from.
Thanks,
Todd
Kremmit:
--- Quote from: whammoed on February 04, 2006, 09:14:42 pm ---I recieved my opti-wiz. Looks very nice, high quality. Came very well packaged.
Thanks RandyT! :)
Made up a little test rig today and thought I'd share:
Not a must have for me, but at the low opti-wiz price I can afford it. ;)
I will definitely be using these on my next project. Perfect implementation of a mouse interface.
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Wow, that looks exactly like the setup I was using! Big long board, Opti-Wiz at one end, and screw terminals. My screw terminals were black, though. ::)
sWampy:
I got one of these this week cause my mini-pac had horrible back spin problems with my betson trackball. With this, and the upgraded encoder wheels it's seems to the be best trackball setup i've ever seen for mame.
My oscar spinner has a small backspin problem with the mini-pac. I guess hooking it up to the z-axis would solve this, but I'm just a little worried about the z-axis spinner support in other applications. Anyone have an opinion on if the benefits of hooking it up to the opti-wiz would outweigh the negatives.
Kremmit:
--- Quote from: sWampy on February 25, 2006, 11:24:12 pm ---I got one of these this week cause my mini-pac had horrible back spin problems with my betson trackball. With this, and the upgraded encoder wheels it's seems to the be best trackball setup i've ever seen for mame.
My oscar spinner has a small backspin problem with the mini-pac. I guess hooking it up to the z-axis would solve this, but I'm just a little worried about the z-axis spinner support in other applications. Anyone have an opinion on if the benefits of hooking it up to the opti-wiz would outweigh the negatives.
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Those upgraded encoder wheels are probably making most of the difference on your trackball. It sure would be interesting to move your spinner from the MiniPac to the OptiWiz and see if/how performance differs between them. You would want to hook it to the same axis on both to make it a fair test.
As for using the Z-axis, I don't know that that would improve backspin issues over using the X or Y axis. The difference between the axes is build into the way Windows handles the data, not the OptiWiz. The main reason to use the Z-axis is to separate the spinner from the trackball, not to improve performance.