Posted by Chris on 13, 2000 at 2:08 PM:
In Reply to: Re: Connecting a Happ Trackball AND Spinner to the same KE72-T... posted by c0nsumer on 13, 2000 at 5:13 AM:
You can not have 2 devices sending data on the same channel at the same time...meaning you couldn't use a trackball and spinner at the same time.
Data sent from these devices is in binary format and expected in a specific pattern. If you had 2 'active' devices on the same channel you would get some weird results.
You could wire them all on the same harness, but you should have a switch to turn each device off seperately. Put the switch inline with the +5 wire.
: I should probebly add on to this... Maybe what I should be asking is, has anyone tried taking the output from a spinner and the X axis of a trackball and combining them at the controller? Is there any reason why this might not work?