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Spintrac question...UPDATED - Fixed
#352935 - 04/13/16 06:16 AM
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>If the spintrac is working correctly, even just on the desktop, the mouse cursor should move along the x-axis, right?
>Not doing it.
Yes it should.
>In MAME I have mouse input enabled & nothing working there either.
>It's getting power from the IPAC Ultimate & into the base of the spinner but nothing is working. I've read about people having to re-wire the connections. I wanted to get some opinions before I started stripping wires & such...
>(It's a 4 pin flat connector, I'm getting +5v from the 2nd pin & the 4th is the ground. The 1st & 3rd should be the axis but that's not what the diagrams say it should be...?)
Correct^^^
>Any other ideas?
>Thanks for any help
FIXED: The spinner itself was bad. Andy sent me a new 1 & it works perfectly. Just an odd occurrence to get a bad part. Happy now... 
Edited by Bad A Billy (05/08/16 05:01 AM)
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Re: Spintrac question...
[Re: Bad A Billy]
#353098 - 04/17/16 09:02 AM
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You mean....when you plug it in via USB, there's no OS recognition?
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[Re: Traso]
#353109 - 04/17/16 06:09 PM
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No, the IPAC Ultimate is plugged in via USB & everything else works fine. The spinner is plugged directly into the ipac.
Checked the power coming off the ipac & got the +5v & ground no problems there.
Swapped it around to the trackball pins & still nothing on either axis there.
Ran WinIPAC & reconfigured that every way that I could, same with MAME, still no love. (On a side note, aren't the settings supposed to stay configured? Every time I reboot the spinner & trackball are disabled & I have to reset them?)
Everything else on the IPAC works fine in MAME(v172), an empty text file, or even on the desktop(Win 10). The spinner is the only component that will not work.
Shouldn't the spinner & a trackball work the same as a USB mouse or is it different?
I would assume that it shouldn't be this difficult to get working, maybe the new Spintrak is actually bad?
Thanks for any help,
Bill
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Re: Spintrac question...
[Re: Bad A Billy]
#353243 - 04/19/16 10:58 PM
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If you can, plug the spintrack directly to the computer to test it. If it works, then run over to BYOAC and ask around. I don't know the functionality of that 'piggy-back' setup. Maybe it's a Win10 thing...but if anyone knows they will, cos that's what they do every day over there, and lots of people are moving to 10.
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