Strange Trackball Problem with Centipede

bigjohn

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I changed out the rollers and bearings in my Centipede's trackball unit today. When I reconnected it, I noticed that left and right movement was reversed. I took the unit back out and inspected, but could not see any way that I could have installed anything backwards.

After wracking my brain and doing a little research, I decided to just switch the wires on the molex connector and everything works again. However, I'm very confused about why it worked correctly before I changed the rollers and bearings, and would not work afterwards.
 
It's hard to understand, but I think if you

A. install the harness backwards (the two boards on the wrong sides) so now vertical is horizontal and horizontal is vertical,

and

B. install the trackball 90degrees off into the cabinet so that now what was horizontal is now vertical, but what was vertical is now on the other side of where horizontal was

It'll do that, lol. I've done it before too, weird as hell.
 
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