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hypes:


--- Quote from: crashwg on June 02, 2007, 02:21:29 pm ---
--- Quote from: hypes on June 02, 2007, 01:17:30 am ---I took the trackball off the mounting plate and manually spun the L/R spinner....got zippy response.

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Sounds to me like the optic board works.  When you spin the ball L/R do all the rollers move as expected?

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Yes....both spinners work fine when I roll the ball.  When I roll the ball up and down, that movement is "sensed" and the mouse cursor moves in the up and down direction.  When I move the ball from left to right, the spinner moves, but the mouse cursor does not.

I did find that wiggling the black optic sensor that the wheel is attached to will allow for some sporadic L/R movement...but I'd have to take the whole trackball apart in order to debug it with a multi-meter (and I'm just not in the mood for doing that now).

Thanks for the linkee...will be checking into that asap...just wanna get my boxen done.

-h

crashwg:

OK, I took "got a zippy response" like "spinning the roller moved the cursor"

A little misunderstanding a guess...

SirPeale:

Swap the optic boards.  Does the problem travel?

Kremmit:


--- Quote from: Peale on June 02, 2007, 06:43:00 pm ---Swap the optic boards.  Does the problem travel?

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Yes!  Do this before you buy a replacement optic board. 

Leave the wiring harness and everything else where it is, only move the optic boards.  If suddenly you have left/right travel but you lose up/down, it's the optic board.  If the problem stays the same, you just have a wiring problem.

SirPeale:

And if it travels, try some fixes before you get a new board. Touch up the solder joints.  Clean the optics of any dust.

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