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FIXED! (New Happ arcade trackball quickly stops working in Y-axis direction)
unclet:
Found out what is causing the problem
I had a USB Hub connected to the computer in which I had connected a Tornado Spinner and a mouse hack spinner as well. When I then plugged in my trackball to the computer directly it worked for a bit but then stopped on the Y-axis. If I disconnected the USB Hub (ie: removing the Tornado spinner, mouse hack and USB Hub) then the trackball worked fine all the time. This explains why on other computers the trackball worked fine.
I then started playing around and figured that if I connect the USB Hub by itself without anything connected to the Hub, then the trackball did not work again so I guess my problem is that the current power supply I have installed in the PC cannot support the USB Hub and Happ trackball mouse hack together.
I am assuming I have a 250Watt (or 300Watt) power supply in my arcade PC and I guess I need to get a stronger one. The power supply is currently powering two hard drives, one CD ROM drive and a USB Hub which has a Tornado spinner and a mouse spinner hack connected. I guess this was too much stuff for the old PC to handle.
I am assuming a new power supply would fix this problem .... do you all agree?
PS: For now, I can get away with plugging my trackball and Tornado Spinner directly into the PC and they are working. I might just forget about connecting my mouse spinner hack to the PC at all and then I will not need to buy anything.
ubiquityman:
It's possible, but maybe you have a bad hub and not a bad power supply?
surface tension:
I would agree that it sounds like the hub rather than the PSU.
The difference in current drawn with and without the mouse hack/trackball would be low compared to components in your PC under light/heavy load.
unclet:
OK, I will try to get a new USB Hub and see what happens.
unclet:
Ugh :censored: :censored:
I plugged my Trackball plugged directly into my arcade computer without anything else connected via USB and everything was working fine. I left the computer on all night just so I could test it in the morning to make sure it still worked fine. To my surprise, the trackball Y-axis did not work again. This time there was no USB Hub, no Tornado spinner and no mouse spinner hack plugged into the computer at all.
I am back to thinking this might be either my trackball mouse hack or the power supply.
I have now connected my trackball mouse hack to my main home computer once again (where it always worked) and I am going to leave it connected over night and all day long to see whether it stops working as well.
(sigh)
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