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Title: miniPac - can you hook up a trackball AND spinner?
Post by: megashock5 on January 04, 2005, 10:12:11 am

Hello, I'm going to be using a miniPac for my interface and I already have the trackball. I'm trying to decide if I'm ambitious enough to attempt building a spinner. However, before I start I want to make sure both can run off of one miniPac. If not, looks like I'll make do with just the trackball.

thanks!

Title: Re: miniPac - can you hook up a trackball AND spinner?
Post by: vputz on January 04, 2005, 10:42:52 am

I have a miniPac (and love it); you can indeed connect a trackball and spinner simultaneously, but you can NOT use them both at the same time.  The minipac is switched; if you move the spinner, trackball motions are not registered at all until you leave everything motionless for a bit (and then moving the trackball disables the spinner, etc).

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Title: Re: miniPac - can you hook up a trackball AND spinner?
Post by: sWampy on January 04, 2005, 11:03:23 am

Make sure you talk to Andy before buying one with out a wiring harness, he said the new boards bought without wiring trackball wiring harness wouldn't support trackball or spinner.

Title: Re: miniPac - can you hook up a trackball AND spinner?
Post by: megashock5 on January 04, 2005, 11:59:22 am

I bought in the fall, but I did buy it with the wiring harness. So hopefully I'll be okay.

Is it hard to connect both (spinner and trackball) to it?

Title: Re: miniPac - can you hook up a trackball AND spinner?
Post by: vputz on January 07, 2005, 05:50:59 pm

Dead easy... provided you get the right trackball/spinner (in other words, if you bought a Happ/Vortex cable, buy a Happ trackball and a Vortex spinner).  You'll have two cables to the harness--one for the TB, one for the spinner.  Plug and go.

However, I do recall being confused about how to plug one of them in, but I don't remember what the specific problem was... so there may be some confusion.  Bleah, curse my fading memory.  It worked out fine, though.

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