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| BobA:
Check your soldering to make sure you have not shorted to another trace. |
| struby:
I am not sure what that means, but i have gotten the trackball to move up and down on the screen, which suggests that the mouse hack is fine, which is the only place soldering is done, however, I can only get up and down movement on screen when I swich it so the up and down on screen is hooked up to the y axis on the ball. |
| Kremmit:
Definately sounds like the trouble is with the optic board, trackball wiring, or the endoder wheel alignment. If the mouse hack can move the cursor both up/down and right/left, then that's not the problem. (glad the hack went well, btw) If it was, you'd consistently fail to move the cursor along the same axis, the problem wouldn't switch axes when you change the wiring. Which you already figured out. Now, you've gotta narrow it down again. First, just look real hard at the encoder wheels- verify that they're both turning, and passing through the optics like they should. If that looks OK, then put the wiring back where it started, verify that the problem persists, and then swap the location of the optic boards. If the problem moves with the boards, then that points to the boards. If not, then the wiring seems most likely. |
| struby:
i did a switch of the wires that plug into the boards, and the ball still only showed movement with left to right ball movement, x or y axis on screen, only x axis on ball. |
| struby:
Also, all wires appear fine, and the black wheels with hooles near the edges appear to be around the same position, the y axis one is less centered, but between both black things. |
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