sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) (03/19/91)
I have an Optical Mouse made by Mouse Systems that is "blind" in one eye. The horizontal eye, to be exact -- which is the one with the visible red LED. The red LED glows nicely but the sensor must be broken because I cannot budge the cursor in the horizontal direction. Vertical movements work perfectly but I cannot budge the cursor in the Horizontal direction. I suspect that the problem is with an optical detector labelled D1 and which looks like an 8-pin IC with glass enclosure in which one can see a linear array of 4 cells which obviously detect the sweep of the red LED light reflected from mouse pad grid lines linearly across the array of 4 cells during horizontal movement. My question is: What is the glass enclosed IC detector element called? Where might I buy one? Might you have a dead optical rodent from which I might do a "corneal transplant"? :-) Thanks _____________________________________________________________________________ Bob Davis, UofALA alum \\ INTERNET: sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com | _ _ | Harris Corporation, ESS \\ UUCP: ...!uunet!x102a!trantor!sonny |_| |_| | | Advanced Technology Dept.\\ AETHER: K4VNO |==============|_/\/\/\|_| PO Box 37, MS 3A/1912 \\ VOICE: (407) 727-5886 | I SPEAK ONLY | |_| |_| | Melbourne, FL 32902 \\ FAX: (407) 729-3363 | FOR MYSELF. |_________|