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| RandyT:
--- Quote from: Searcher7 on June 14, 2009, 02:09:13 pm ---An "industry wide problem"? Be careful with your quotes. You're taking a suggestion not directed toward any company in particular and treating it like it's a personal attack. --- End quote --- Well, you made it in a thread where someone asked for wiring help with an Opti-Wiz. So if you weren't directing it this way, then it was probably not appropriate for this thread. All of our products normally come with docs. We actually print them and include them with the products. I don't know if we mistakenly forgot to include one, but if we did, it's a very rare occurrence. Regardless, they are always an email away. And most of our products do have docs available for them "on line". This one just hasn't made it up there yet because it's a recent hardware version. --- Quote ---And since you mentioned it. I'm still waiting for answers concerning the Opti-Wiz™ Trackball and Spinner Interface", since the documentation and reviews I've read online don't address my questions. --- End quote --- I don't see anything indicating that you are or ever were a customer, or have ever sent an email asking for information about the Opti-Wiz. Regardless, the Opti-Wiz is a very simple device, but it has broad application possibilities. It can be used for Steering wheels, spinners, trackballs, MPG's, video jog units, roller wheels, etc... Obviously, it is unreasonable to expect "step-by-step instructions with visuals" for the dozens of possible devices the Opti-Wiz can be used with, so one has to expect that the individual installing one, possesses a certain amount of rudimentary knowledge about the controls they expect to hook to it. If you click on the link to the Opti-Wiz instructions, you will see the 3 sets of two inputs which provide you with access to the X, Y and Z axes, along with power and ground. Virtually all optical controls use this same simple set of inputs (spinners / steering wheels use 1 set and trackballs use 2), so interfacing is usually not a very difficult proposition at all, as long as the device being interfaced is actually functional. Was there some other specific question you had regarding the Opti-Wiz that wasn't covered in the docs or the explanation above? RandyT |
| RandyT:
--- Quote from: Vicious Burger on June 11, 2009, 11:17:00 pm --- --- End quote --- BTW, I just noticed this....that upper screwhead is making me nervous. Use a smaller screw and make sure the head isn't touching any of the components. I can't tell if it's shorting across anything, but it does look like it's touching one of the leads of the chip. Might be the problem, might not. RandyT |
| Vicious Burger:
I actually unscrewed it from the control panel and tried it on my main computer. Same thing,it recognises the wiz when the usb cable is plugged in,but not the ball. I checked voltages with a meter and I'm getting 5v reading on one of the curcuit boards on the trackball,but at most i can get about 0.8v on the other. I assume they should both be getting 5v. Even if one was getting power,shouldnt it register on the mouse pointer as the x or y movement? Damn this should be so simple,plug in and go. What else can be wrong. Optical sensors on the trackball? |
| RandyT:
--- Quote from: Vicious Burger on June 15, 2009, 03:52:28 am ---I actually unscrewed it from the control panel and tried it on my main computer. Same thing,it recognises the wiz when the usb cable is plugged in,but not the ball. I checked voltages with a meter and I'm getting 5v reading on one of the curcuit boards on the trackball,but at most i can get about 0.8v on the other. I assume they should both be getting 5v. Even if one was getting power,shouldnt it register on the mouse pointer as the x or y movement? Damn this should be so simple,plug in and go. What else can be wrong. Optical sensors on the trackball? --- End quote --- Remove the trackball PCB that is showing only .8v from the harness (just unplug it the 4 wire molex-style connector from it) and see if the other one starts to work. Then try swapping them. |
| Vicious Burger:
OK I took off the curcuit board that was not getting the full 5v. The other one didn't work on its own. I tested the voltage at the open plug and,still get the same reading. Also I am getting the message "A problem occured during installation. Your new hardware may not be working properly" when plugging in to the USB port. Whether or not any of this is relevant i don't know. I took a couple pics (click for large close-ups) The black bit is where the wheel spins through,but I dont see a sensor on it. My spinner has a little sensor that looks like a teeny weeny lightbulb,but this does not. Maybe it's inside those little slits (better seen in first pic) I see something inside there.Like i said,relevant or not,i dunno. The guy i got this trackball from said it was tested in a Golden Tee game and was working. |
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