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Hawk Daddy:

So what is the standard trackball pinout for a happ trackball?  LIke the y-dir, y-clk, x-dir, and x-clk, and the grounds?

Hawk

Stobe:

Not a pinout, but a "wire-out" at least:

 Left/Right                                                   Up/Down
1) Output - A  (Blue Wire)                         1) Output - A  (Green Wire) 
2) +5V           (Red Wire)                            2) +5V            (Red Wire)
3) GND         (Black Wire)                          3) GND          (Black Wire)
4) Output - B (Yellow Wire)                        4) Output - B (Orange Wire)

The six pins should corelate to the 4 signals plus +5V and Ground (being split to the 2 optic boards)

And here's the pin numbers:

PIN WIRE #1 – Black 1 Yellow + 12 Volts DC
PIN WIRE #1 - Red PIN WIRE #2 – Red 2 Black Ground
PIN WIRE #2 - Yellow PIN WIRE #3 – Yellow 3 Red + 5 Volts DC
PIN WIRE #3 - Green PIN WIRE #4 – Green 4 Black Ground
PIN WIRE #5 - Blue PIN WIRE #5 – Blue
PIN WIRE #4 - Purple PIN WIRE #6 – Purple

Hope that makes sense.

-Stobe

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--- Quote from: Hawk Daddy on June 29, 2007, 12:18:19 am ---LIke the y-dir, y-clk, x-dir, and x-clk...

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FWI, the TB outputs a quadrature signal, not a direction & amount like in the question.  IOW, "Output A" in Stobe's answer is one of the two sensors for that axis and Output B is the other sensor, and each channel outputs whether the sensor is seeing a gap or not.  The Optipac, Optiwiz, or hacked mouse board these are connected to is what converts the quadrature signal to amount (and direction) and sends that to the computer.

Hawk Daddy:

Well it's not going to a computer, its going to a multiboard.  Thats why I was asking. And the manual that came with the board has those as what wires it needs to be.

Hawk.

FrizzleFried:

I am interested in finding out this info as well...I am going to hook a centipede TB to a multiboard...the multigame board uses the JAMMA harness.  How do I hook it up...am I going to need to get an Optipac or something or can I wire the TB directly to the JAMMA harness?


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