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TB & Spinner to one input?
« on: December 22, 2003, 08:40:52 am »
I noticed on oscar's site that there's a tutorial on connecting a TB & Spinner to a mouse using a DPDT switch but i didn't think you had to do that, i figgured you could just hook them both up at the same time
Is there any harm in doing this? Will it work? IPAC, Mouse hack, any other option?
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Re:TB & Spinner to one input?
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2003, 08:45:30 am »
Quote from: crashwg on December 22, 2003, 08:40:52 am
I noticed on oscar's site that there's a tutorial on connecting a TB & Spinner to a mouse using a DPDT switch but i didn't think you had to do that, i figgured you could just hook them both up at the same time
Is there any harm in doing this? Will it work? IPAC, Mouse hack, any other option?
I thought you could hook them both up at the same time, as long as you didn't mind accidentally moving the spinner affecting your trackball games.  I think I might have heard of some people having problems with this, though.

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Re:TB & Spinner to one input?
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2003, 01:14:30 pm »
Might need some diodes to keep things flowing in the right direction....
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Re:TB & Spinner to one input?
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2003, 03:33:01 pm »
I think the signals from the two sets of optics will interfere with each other if connected together, thus the switch is needed.  Could be wrong tho...
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