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grounding the trackball...
DennisInMN:
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--- Quote from: Minwah on May 26, 2004, 04:54:53 am ---How about other controls? Most of the arcade controls I own have a green wire attached to the metal housing of the control, and often has a round connector on the other end.
As it's connected to the metal housing, I guess this is an electrical earth - does it need to be connected up?
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Does it need to be hooked up to function? Most likely not. It's pretty much up to you and whether or not your environment builds up a lot of static electricity.
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And what does happen if there is a lot of static electricity build up? Does the trackball get fried?
NoOne=NBA=:
My guess would be no.
I think the ground wire is there to prevent the trackball/roller/plastic housing/metal mounting plate capacitor effect.
I'm guessing that they had a problem with people getting zapped on the metal mounting plate when they came up to, or were playing the game due to the trackball rollers building up a static charge.
I pulled the ground wires off of mine, and haven't had a problem.
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