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skippy:
   It's is a usb minipac an not the ps/2 one right?  you are using the trackball pins not the spinner ones?  Do you have another mouse connected  to the pc also?  Try removing the minipac from the device manager and then plug it back in.  I've had my computer just see it as a keyboard so the trackball wouldn't work.  Also email Andy he is usually pretty quick with responses, much faster then the boards.

Lomar:
The Mini-Pac is USB and I 'm using the X and Y from the Mini-Pac.

Whyyyyyyyy do I think it is related to power?  I have the fat power connector coming from the Trackball but I have nowhere to plug it in.

Is there any place to plug in power or am I supposed to snip and crimp some wires?

BobA:
A Happ trackball has one six pin molex connector that has connections for the  x and y axis and +5V and gnd. 

"I have the fat power connector coming from the Trackball but I have nowhere to plug it in."   

If you did not connect to this connector where did you connect?   Are you connected directly to the optical boards? If so do you have +5V and Gnd connected to both boards  as well?

BobA

Lomar:
The Mini-Pac has two 4 pin molex connectors.

The Trackball has 2 4 pin molex connectors connected to 2 different ends of the trackball that string out to the connector you refer to.

I remove the original Happ connectors entirely and plug in the matching two from the Mini-Pac.

That's all I can see to plug in.   :'(

BobA:
That sounds like all the connections that you need. If you have disgarded the original harness and plugged in directly you should only have the frame ground left and it does not have to be connected for the unit to trackball to work.

Perhaps the Mini Pac is defective.

BobA

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