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| AndyWarne:
--- Quote from: rdowdy95 on January 28, 2008, 04:45:08 pm ---Andy another quick thing. What is slippage between the ball and the roller, or binding of the roller? What are those two things? I know where the rollers are from the schematic, but just not sure what that means, and is those problems fixable maybe with some cleaning solution? Maybe it means just some gunk on the roller or dirt buildup perhaps? --- End quote --- The roller does the sensing as it has the spoked optical wheel attached, but the ball carries the users movement, so the two must move together. Slippage can be caused by grease or dirt build-up on the roller or binding on the roller. One cause of binding is grease in the bearings. I would suspect the cause of your problem is not mechanical though, but electronic, a failing sensor, but you could check using the test I mentioned. Andy |
| rdowdy95:
Hey guys! Andy thanks for the info and you to milhouse (love the name by the way). Anyways here is my findings. I took the ball out and the rollers and the bearings look spotless. I moved the little wheel on the left bottom side (if you were looking at it the way it should face in the arcade. When that green pcb board was set center and all and the roller spinned it would move left and right just fine. Now the top right wheel and PCB sensor whenever I took the trackball out and spun the spoke wheel that sensor didn't hardly read anything. Sometimes it would pop the cursor up and down other times it just would read any spinning of the spoke wheel. I did my best to keep the little wheel centered in the middle and try to get it to register some kind of movement, but it didn't do jack. Guys I have the following trackball: http://www.happcontrols.com/trackballs/565600xx2.htm I tried to look for the mouting view to find out what part I need. All I found were directions to hook the buttons up on that page. Now see I don't know if this little green card is the same that is the regular 3" trackball or not. Remember I have three things that will plug into this card. One will the the USB/PS2 interface, one will be the mouse buttons, and the other will be the connector to the other little green board that controls the left and right spoke wheel thingie. My little board that I had said rev. D on it with a happcontrols 2001 date on it. I heard those kind of go out for no dang reason. Anyways do you guys know if ponyboy and divemaster are still around? I ordered from ponyboy for most of my stuff, but divemaster hooked me up with black carriage bolts. Anyways also if you got the happ part # to that lil green pcb card that would be great. Remember it is for the URL listed above the USB/PS2 one. Thanks, Robert |
| Avrus:
Those green pcb boards had a really high failure rate. |
| rdowdy95:
--- Quote from: Avrus on January 29, 2008, 01:38:40 pm ---Those green pcb boards had a really high failure rate. --- End quote --- Yeah I heard the same thing. It was like the rev. d boards from 2001 or something. I need a new one. Hopefully one that will work in the same setup I have without the crappy failure rate. Anyone know what to ask for in a replacement? I guess I will need to look for ponyboy! |
| divemaster127:
I have 2 sets of replacements in stock, send a pm if you need dm |
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