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Title: Where's ground?
Post by: mahuti on November 07, 2004, 04:23:39 pm
I'm sure one of you guys can help. Forgive me for being dense, but I've searched and I can't find the answer. Take a look at the attached picture. I ripped this piece off of the spinwheel in my mouse and want to wire it to my optipac.

One question. Where do I wire the ground?
Title: Re:Where's ground?
Post by: SirPeale on November 07, 2004, 04:55:27 pm
Show a picture of the PCB, and likely we can show you your ground.

If not, you can attach ground to the ground wire coming off the mouse cable.
Title: Re:Where's ground?
Post by: mahuti on November 07, 2004, 05:19:14 pm
What you see is what you get. I want to wire this directly into an optipac.

That piece. Not the whole mouse board.
Title: Re:Where's ground?
Post by: SirPeale on November 07, 2004, 05:28:39 pm
I don't believe you can.  You need more than just the optic sensor to talk to the machine.

Someone prove me wrong.

Title: Re:Where's ground?
Post by: mahuti on November 07, 2004, 07:20:13 pm
You don't need anything else. It works just like any of the other optic sensors.
Title: Re:Where's ground?
Post by: SirPoonga on November 07, 2004, 07:54:30 pm
Ground is usually obvious because everything connects to it and usually uses a black wire.

What you will need, for a tball Iam assuming, witht he optipac is get tball optics (from bob roberts is the best place) and wire teh 4 wires to the optipac.