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AtomSmasher:
I bought a 3'' happ trackball new a little over a year ago, along with a ps2/usb mouse wiring harness for it.  It doesn't get a lot of use, but has worked perfectly until recently.  Out of the blue the X-axis on the trackball has stopped working and I have no idea what happened.  My cabinet sits in a mostly unused room and I'm the only one that plays on it and since I live by myself I know no one else could of gotten to it. 

Anyways, the vertical axis is no longer working.  I've taken the trackball apart and everything appears to be normal, no noticable cut wire or short in the wiring.  I also tried it in both usb and ps/2 mode with the same result.  The horizontal axis still works fine, as do the mouse buttons.

Anyone have any ideas of what I should try?  Do these happen to have a warranty longer then 1 year?

SirPeale:
Swap the connector from the non-working side to the working side.  Does the problem switch?  If so, there's a problem with the PCB.  You may be able to fix it by touching up the solder joints.

AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: Peale on January 13, 2007, 09:08:44 pm ---Swap the connector from the non-working side to the working side.  Does the problem switch?  If so, there's a problem with the PCB.  You may be able to fix it by touching up the solder joints.

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How exactly do I swap the connector?  Seems like the wires go in a pretty specific place and theres really no way to swap them.  I attached a pic of the PCB and the problem is the one on the right, the other one works fine.  It basically still looks good as new, I can't see any solder points that might need to be touched up.

SirPeale:
Hm...that wasn't what I was expecting to see.

AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: Peale on January 14, 2007, 04:52:23 am ---Hm...that wasn't what I was expecting to see.

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What were you expecting to see?  Maybe you didn't realize that I said I got the mouse wiring harness for it so it doesn't require a seperate PCB.  The cable goes directly from the trackball to the ps/2 or usb input on the computer.

Anyone else have any idea of what I can do?  I know X-Arcade has lifetime warranties on their products, but after some searching I can't find anything on Happs warranties.  It wouldn't surprise me if it was only 1 year or even 90 days, but I'm hoping thats not the case.

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