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| Kremmit:
Sounds like the boards, then. Although I notice it's the non-working axis you say the wheels seem a little off-kilter on. You might try wiggling things around before you get a new optic board. Did you buy your TB new, from a vendor that might send you a replacement? |
| quarterback:
--- Quote from: Kremmit on April 12, 2006, 10:24:36 pm ---Sounds like the boards, then. Although I notice it's the non-working axis you say the wheels seem a little off-kilter on. You might try wiggling things around before you get a new optic board. Did you buy your TB new, from a vendor that might send you a replacement? --- End quote --- It was mine. Since it does indeed sound like the board, I'll be sending struby a replacement. Sorry for the trouble struby. I'll PM you. |
| struby:
No problem you have been helpful, thanks, and thanks to everyone else who helped, I am going to check one or two more things first, then we will see. |
| fixumdude:
struby, I couldn't see where you said what type of mouse hack you used. I had a similar problem when I used a serial mouse hack. Apparently the serial port didn't have enough current to run both optic boards at the same time. When I plugged in just one board at a time they both worked great, but as soon as I plugged both boards in simultaneously one would drop out...it drove me crazy until I figured out what was going on. I switched to USB and PS/2 mice and haven't had any trouble. I don't know if this applies to you, but thought it might help someone else out there with a similar problem. |
| quarterback:
--- Quote from: fixumdude on May 11, 2006, 10:38:45 am ---struby, I couldn't see where you said what type of mouse hack you used. I had a similar problem when I used a serial mouse hack. Apparently the serial port didn't have enough current to run both optic boards at the same time. --- End quote --- Thats interesting fixumdude. Because I sent struby 2 more working optic boards from another trackball. They were both working for struby for a number of days and then, suddenly, the Y-Axis stopped working.... then worked again... then stopped. I thought that it was strange that 2 out of 4 boards would suddenly stop working within the same month on the same axis and suggested that it might be the hack itself. Although, honestly, I was afraid that struby's hack was simply burning out all the boards I was sending due to too high voltage or something. In any case, struby's going to send two of the four boards back to me and I'd love it if they ended up to not actually be burned out after all. |
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