dead spinner...

[F1r3f1ght3r]

the Oscar spinner in my original cab went dead about a year ago (at that time running w98se on a cel 1. machine you see the mouse board (logitech), but wouldn't spin. Since we had another cab with spinner... i didn't worry about it.

To make a long story short... sold other cab about 3months ago and kids have been on me to get the spinner fixed. Found a belkin (samsung) USB mouse and hacked the board to be used with the Model 3... same problem won't spin. Compter sees it but no movement.

Now I would say that it was the computer but, that has been upgraded also to a p4 2.8 running XP pro... any ideas?

[Edgedamage]

Might have dust blocking the recever. Check to see if the emitter/recever is still lined-up with the holes in the incoder wheel.

[spidermonkey]

http://www.oscarcontrols.com/

I'm assuming you did talk to the man himself about your problem first right ?

[F1r3f1ght3r]

Might have dust blocking the recever. Check to see if the emitter/recever is still lined-up with the holes in the incoder wheel.

no dust.. clean and everything was lined up both on the original and on the newly hacked belkin.

I'm assuming you did talk to the man himself about your problem first right ?

No reason to.... at the point it went dead (or at least I thought it was), it was a year old.... My post was mainly to see if anyone has seen an issue like this before I use one of the other belkins and make it tree for three.

when/if the third does the same thing.... I will end up getting the new optical board and mouse interface from oscar.

[NoOne=NBA=]

Just get a new Optic card and Oscar's Mouse Hack, and save yourself all the headaches.

I've put his cards on everything, and put his hacks on everything.
Why everyone keeps banging their heads against the wall rather than just using Oscar's stuff is beyond me.

[monkeybomb]

Why everyone keeps banging their heads against the wall rather than just using Oscar's stuff is beyond me.

Here! Here!

[fredster]

My guess: Dead optical transistor on the spinner optic board.

Does anybody know how to test this?  Don't you put a logic probe on the collector and see if it's dead?

If not, don't you put a multitester there and see if it's shorted?

Those transistors can be had for about $7.00

[NoOne=NBA=]

You can buy the WHOLE BOARD from Oscar for $7.50--and it will work.
No Testing, No Tweaking.