Tornado Spinner and Opti-Wiz

[MJCarroll]

Greetings,

I purchased one of the Electric-ICE trackballs from GGG.com, and with it came the Opti-Wiz encoder.  I ordered a Tornado with the TTL board under the impression that I could connect the TTL board to the Opti-Wiz encoder.

After much searching, I have not found anyone doing the same thing, and I was wondering if anyone could offer any help.  The Tornado TTL board is not marked, but I looked up the opti-encoders (QVE00118) datasheet.  From that datasheet, I was able to derive what ground, +5V, X1, and X2 were.  I wire these to the corresponding places on the OptiWiz encoder, and receive no response.

It is also interesting to note, with +5V and ground connected, I get no voltage drop across the emitters in the opti-encoders.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

--Michael Carroll

[Kremmit]

The standard Tornado optic board is a complete USB interface, and cannot be directly connected to an Opti-Wiz, Opti-Pac, Mini-Pac, mouse hack or other such device- it plugs into your computer directly via USB.

I believe SS has stated that they can sell, upon request, a plain-jane optic board for connection to such devices.  I'd contact them and see if you can swap yours for one of those.  Or, you could replace it with another optic board if you happen to have one laying around. Or, just use it as it is.