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Really really stupid question...
hypes:
--- Quote from: crashwg on June 02, 2007, 02:21:29 pm ---
--- Quote from: hypes on June 02, 2007, 01:17:30 am ---I took the trackball off the mounting plate and manually spun the L/R spinner....got zippy response.
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Sounds to me like the optic board works. When you spin the ball L/R do all the rollers move as expected?
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Yes....both spinners work fine when I roll the ball. When I roll the ball up and down, that movement is "sensed" and the mouse cursor moves in the up and down direction. When I move the ball from left to right, the spinner moves, but the mouse cursor does not.
I did find that wiggling the black optic sensor that the wheel is attached to will allow for some sporadic L/R movement...but I'd have to take the whole trackball apart in order to debug it with a multi-meter (and I'm just not in the mood for doing that now).
Thanks for the linkee...will be checking into that asap...just wanna get my boxen done.
-h
crashwg:
OK, I took "got a zippy response" like "spinning the roller moved the cursor"
A little misunderstanding a guess...
SirPeale:
Swap the optic boards. Does the problem travel?
Kremmit:
--- Quote from: Peale on June 02, 2007, 06:43:00 pm ---Swap the optic boards. Does the problem travel?
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Yes! Do this before you buy a replacement optic board.
Leave the wiring harness and everything else where it is, only move the optic boards. If suddenly you have left/right travel but you lose up/down, it's the optic board. If the problem stays the same, you just have a wiring problem.
SirPeale:
And if it travels, try some fixes before you get a new board. Touch up the solder joints. Clean the optics of any dust.
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