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Happ Trackball Circuit Board
FrizzleFried:
--- Quote from: marlborroman13 on February 28, 2009, 07:28:10 pm ---It's a 32 bit OS. Windows 2000 Pro.
Nothing has changed in my set up in over 2 1/2 years. The TB Backspin problem just appeared one day. So, I figured the optics had begun to wear out. I did some research here on the board and it seems many people have this prob with USB trackballs over time. So I figured time to replace the boards and everything would be fine. Unfortunately, not so in my case.
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Other than the optic boards, the only thing else "electronics" is the harness itself (which is what the "tech" recommended the first time to me). At $7.50 for the harness, it may behoove you to try it out. I may actually call and order one just in case anyway.
RandyT:
--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on March 01, 2009, 02:19:07 pm ---Other than the optic boards, the only thing else "electronics" is the harness itself (which is what the "tech" recommended the first time to me). At $7.50 for the harness, it may behoove you to try it out. I may actually call and order one just in case anyway.
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Unless a mouse chewed it, or it got yanked, a cable isn't going to go bad. Even if it did, it would more likely just lose an entire axis. I'd say re-seat the cables a few times on the connectors and if nothing changes, then it's safe to assume the cables aren't the problem.
If the boards are good, and they just may not be, then start looking at the system. Sometimes viruses and other system issues can affect the mouse polling speeds. It shouldn't matter with newer versions of MAME, but make sure no-one has messed with the mouse settings in your OS, or made any other changes to the system (installation of new software, etc) that might coincide with the issue.
Frizz, your problem is definitely hardware, as it's only one axis. In a situation where both are affected the same way, all of a sudden and for no particular reason, then start suspecting other causes.
RandyT
pinballwizard79:
any luck Frizz?
A buddy lost his front to back motion on his machine a few weeks ago. My current machine has nasty backspin too.........My very first machine is like 5 years old & still has a perfect Imperal trackball in it.
Go figure.
AMDman13:
I broke down last night and purchased a standard Happ ball and Opti-Pac. I'll post back with my results. In the meantime, Divemaster agreed to let me return the USB boards!
FrizzleFried:
I am extremely happy to report that I received my Happ USB Optic board (the larger one) and upon replacement my trackball is now FULLY FUNCTIONING with ZERO backspin!!!!!!!!!!!