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Title: Track Ball Woes and a Quickie
Post by: TalkingOctopus on July 29, 2003, 08:24:03 pm

Hey All,

I have a 3" happ trackball connected to a Hagstrom ke72-t with the hagstrom cable.  

My problem:

When I spin the tb left, the cursors goes right.  Right = left.  Up and down are normal.  This is in windows xp.  I have the tb oriented correctly, (The monitor arrow faces the monitor).  

Do I need to hack up the cable and pull a switcharoo?  Did anyone else have this problem and have a solution? Am I just wrong?  It has been a very long time since i have used a trackball, but this just cannot be right

My Quickie:

On a happ over under coindoor, do I attach the red 5v or the yellow 12 v wire from the computer power supply to the lights that came with the door.  I know either would work, but which would work best?  I was thinking 12 v.

Thanks in advance!

Title: Re:Track Ball Woes and a Quickie
Post by: OSCAR on July 29, 2003, 10:08:49 pm

Does the KE72-T have a "reverse direction" jumper like the ME4 does?  If so, that would be the easy way.  If not, all you need to do is swap the yellow/green wires going into the trackball Molex connector (http://www.oscarcontrols.com/dualdevice/happ_tball.gif).


The yellow 12V is what you would use for coin door lights, wired in parallel.

Title: Re:Track Ball Woes and a Quickie
Post by: Raleigh on July 29, 2003, 10:28:46 pm

I've got the KE-USB36 which has the trackball interface like the KE72T and in the hagstrom program where you program the inputs is the trackball controls where you can reverse the axis.

Title: Re:Track Ball Woes and a Quickie
Post by: TalkingOctopus on July 30, 2003, 12:46:08 am

Whoa that config is really nice...The one with the ke72 must be run in a dos prompt and uses a text file.  

I will have to check on that jumper...but I don't think it exists.  I will cross those 2 wires.  Thanks for your help!

Title: Re:Track Ball Woes and a Quickie
Post by: TalkingOctopus on July 30, 2003, 12:50:56 am

Opps....Its actually better than a jumper. A command!

Quote

Trackball X Direction Reversal -  The reported direction of the X axis
                        of the trackball input in the model KE72-T may
                        be reversed using the following command.

REVX:Y

This option, when set, will reverse the direction of the X axis data
when reported to the PS2 mouse port.  Use this option if the left-right
movement of your trackball device operates in reverse to the default
direction.

Note that not specifying a setting for this option is the same as
stating the option as REVX:N