Track and Field with Trackballs wiring help!

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I have put together a Track and Field trackball control panel, but it was bare when I got it.

I got 2 Wico 2.25in Trackballs.
I bought the Stern adapter board for the trackballs over Ebay, and replaced some components on it but I'm still not sure if it's working.

I thought I wired it up correctly, but would like to see a pic or hear from someone with a working Track and Field trackball.

In the Stern manual, it states Pin3 is TKBL1 on the control panel connector, and Pin6 is TKBL2. These go to the adapter board in locations pin1 and pin 7 respectively. Then as you can see, Pins 3 and 4 are TBR and TBL. I am assuming that is the right player trackball (run) and left player trackball (run), however I don't know which pin on the track ball harness to hook it up to. I want to spin the trackball to the right to run. So I have it hooked up to the purple wire of the trackball, and that is going to pin 4 (TBL) on the adapter board (this is the left trackball). However the trackball does not make the player run at all. Do I need to hook up both the horizontal wires to the single pin 4? I just did the one spinning right.

I've never played the trackball version, if someone could also tell me if you can spin the trackball both ways?
T&FTrackball Schematic .jpg
 
I'm having trouble getting mine going as well. I matched the wire colors to the buttons-only CP but it's not a direct match. Unless I did something else wrong.
 
OK, I know nothing about the T&F trackball control method, but that wiring diagram doesn't seem correct.

It would seem to me that even a single axis trackball (ie, spinner) would need both direction and clock in order to register movement. That's why an optic board has 4 pins: +5v, GND, Dir, Clk. I don't understand how 3 connectors to an optic board would work, unless there is something really funky going on with the T&F logic that I don't understand.
 
It's just a quadrature encoder, and it doesn't matter what way you spin.

You just hook up HCLK and HDIR to left and right (doesn't matter which way).

You shouldn't need any sort of adapter board unless the pullups on the game board are too weak to give clean outputs -- if you're got encoder boards with inverters on them they should work fine.
 
Thanks guys. I kind of figured out what the problem is. Someone on Ebay is selling miswired Konami T&F jamma adapters. Therefore the runs weren't even hooked up.
 
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