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great... I killed my trackball! (Betson/Imperial 3")
brandon:
ok... so as the title states I just killed my trackball.. or at least half of it. I sucessfully completed my first mouse hack tonight and everything was going great. I decided to get adventurous and connect my Arkanoid spinner. So I removed the 4 pin molex from one of the TBs optic boards and connected it to the spinner. TADA! it worked and I proceeded to play Arkanoid until nearly 3am. Well at some point during my hot swapping of optic boards I fried one on my Betson. I dunno if I zapped the 74HC14N chip on there or the optics.. so now what? I have 4 or 5 old, rusted out 2.25 Atari Trackballs laying around but the optic boards arent the same. Any advice?
Encryptor:
Go to the thread below and see if fixumdude has any more of his optic boards.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=48855.0
Encryptor
brandon:
hmm.. well the thing is I have plenty of optic boards I could take out of my Atari TBs.. but they arent the same. The Betson optic board is a different size (I think) and it has a 74HC14N chip as well.
DeLuSioNal29:
--- Quote from: brandon on February 24, 2008, 01:17:55 pm ---hmm.. well the thing is I have plenty of optic boards I could take out of my Atari TBs.. but they arent the same. The Betson optic board is a different size (I think) and it has a 74HC14N chip as well.
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The optic replacement boards he sells are only $8 or $9 each. A small price to pay for a $99 trackball!
Buy the part. Be fortunate that it was only a $10 mistake and not a $100 one!
~ DeLuSioNaL
brandon:
Thanks guys :) Apparently the chip on the Betson just cleans of the signal into a nice square wave.. but like you said the mouse already has a chip for that. so I'll just trim down one of my Atari optic boards and make it fit.
--- Quote from: fixumdude on January 20, 2006, 05:46:07 pm ---They fit Atari style trackballs unmodified and will fit Wico and Imperial trackballs if you sand or cut them to the white lines on the board.
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