Happ trackball lag skip

[meltman]

I've been searching my butt off trying to figure out whether I just simply bought the wrong trackball.

I bought the Happ USB trackball because I didnt want to fiddle hacking a mouse.

Anways, I have a horrible lag when you really beat on the ball (playing golden tee). If you spin the ball too fast, it seems like the mouse controller chip inside cant deal with the speed. I've searched and found a thread that addresses the problem somewhat, but I'm still not satisfied.

I've done the following:
Set sample rate to 200
Unchecked "Fast initialization"
Set windows mouse speed to minimum (can definately see the lag when you spin too fast with mouse speed at minimum)
Turned off "pointer precision"

Does anyone know if its a simple limitation of the mouse controller IC that Happ uses?

I've honestly thought of swapping to red boards and hacking a mouse, but can anyone first confirm that that will even help the situation?

Has anyone found something that I havnt that made golden tee more playable?

[meltman]

Ok, so yesterday I took it all apart and worked on the bearings.

I bought:
brake cleaner
pinecar wheel graphite

Hosed out the oil in the bearings with the brake cleaner, allowed them to dry. I then applied the graphite to the bearings.

It helped tremendously. The ball rolls completely freely just like the Golden Tee machines. It also tremendously helped the studder-skip. Maybe some of my studder was because the ball was outrolling the rollers?

I dont really know.