X52 mousewheel scroll problem
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I have a problem for anyone with knowledge on this kind of stuff:
The x52 has a mouse scroll wheel on the throttle that can also be clicked, just like your middle mouse button. When I scroll mine one “notch”, it only registers an input 20-50% of the time, so it’s unreliable. If I hold the wheel down in the clicked state and scroll, it works properly, registering an input for every notch. So I figured there must be something mechanically wrong.
Here is what it looks like inside:
Cool. From what I can tell, scrolling the mouse-wheel rotates “spindle arms” between two sensors, blocking the light signal and indicating one “notch”. The gear thing on the right side of the scroll wheel doesn’t appear to have any wiring and is just for mechanical clicks.
Mousewheel depressed :
I assume that the mousewheel works better when depressed because the spindle arms block more area between the two light sensors.
I tried several times to bend the light sensors at different angles to improve the effectiveness of the “spindle arms” when button is not depressed.
This had no effect.
Any ideas?
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could it be that the click is to differentiate between fast and slow scrolling??
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From the pics I guess the hole where the axle goes through and pushed up by the spring is worn-out causing the spindle to move to far up and does not block enough light like you already mentioned. So one possible solution might be doing something about that axle hole. Looks like the little bracket is removable. It might be easier to lift the pcb where the sensor is soldered on a bit to close the gap, but leaves enough room for the wheel to be pressed. Or even better, looks like it’s possible to lift the black box beneath the sensor, closer to the xmtr and rec. This would also narrow the gap.
send from my C6903
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could it be that the click is to differentiate between fast and slow scrolling??
No mention of anything like that in the manual pdf. Also the “slow scrolling” is so non-uniform, sometimes it responds to 2 or 3 notches in a row, then won’t respond for the next 5. So I don’t think so.
From the pics I guess the hole where the axle goes through and pushed up by the spring is worn-out causing the spindle to move to far up and does not block enough light like you already mentioned. So one possible solution might be doing something about that axle hole. Looks like the little bracket is removable. It might be easier to lift the pcb where the sensor is soldered on a bit to close the gap, but leaves enough room for the wheel to be pressed. Or even better, looks like it’s possible to lift the black box beneath the sensor, closer to the xmtr and rec. This would also narrow the gap.
send from my C6903
Yes, maybe the hole the axle pushes through got worn down from all that spinning, creating too much space. I will try to augment the hole somehow.