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O how I mourn thee, sweet trackball (with pics!)
pragma:
OK, I rewired it the other way, against my better judgment but in line with the flat terminal being the negative and... the whole thing is no longer recognized as a mouse. Oh well. Time to rewire it the other way again, recheck everything one last time, and maybe, just maybe give up. Unless somebody has any other troubleshooting ideas of course! :-)
Thanks for all the help
Paul
pragma:
I got it working! :-)
Beley, your instructions were 100% correct. The flat side going to the negative terminal on the board (or rather, the one not marked +) was the config that eventually did work. I basically unwired everything and rewired everything (my soldering skill improved significantly by the end, and so I thought it might make sense the make them all the quality of my last one.)
And... lo and behold... I even have a button wired in now.
Thanks for all of your help. I guess I mourned too soon!
Paul
Beley:
Just glad i could help
BeBoxer:
A quick tip I learned for debugging IR LED stuff. Most CCD's are sensitive to IR, and it'll show up in the images. Since you have a digital camera, you should be able to see if the LEDs are illuminated in the viewfinder. You might have to be in a fairly dark room for it to work. I took this with my Canon Elph. I can see the IR LED on my optical mouse in the viewfinder, but couldn't get a good picture of it.
On a related note, the CCD's I've tried don't seem to be sensitive to the 1310nm light used by fiber networking. Or at least the amount of light isn't visible. Oh well. But that's way off topic.
pragma:
That is a great tip, BeBoxer. Thanks!
Paul