Athan
Resident Freddy
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So, for sometime now my wonderful Logitech Dual Optical (I'd link it, but the logitech site is awful, and the mouse is 5+ years old so probably not listed any more anyway) had been working fine other than the mousewheel. It would randomly decide to only scroll down, or not at all. A shame, because it's a wonderful mouse. A lovely weight, just the right size for my hand, a wonderfully designed thumb button, dual optical sensors for 800 dpi (a rare thing when I purchased it, most mice still languishing on 400dpi if that).
I was loathe to open it up to see if it was fixable, fearing the innards might be too complex to allow for that without breaking something.
So, I order up myself a Logitech MX518 Optical Gaming Mouse which after (Sh|C)it(t)y Link screwing up the delivery yesterday finally arrived today. Plug new mouse in, it's wonderful, although woah! way more sensitive (so tuned that down a bit).
So, new mouse arrived and confirmed working, time to open up the old one to see what the problem was. First off, just two screws and it comes apart easily. Inside the way the thumb button works is quite funky but obviously works well. Then on investigation the mouse wheel is of an optical variety. The wheel itself has spokes the turning of which is detected by an LED+optical sensor shining through (or not) them.
Why wasn't it working? CAT FUR. So this little furball was the reason ! Although to be fair, having had the mouse so long, I did 'live with' another cat for a while with the same mouse in use. But, yes, cat fur, stuffed in blocking all the spokes, and in a few other places inside too.
Interesting that old mouse is too light by itself, with just the button mechanisms and electronics in it. It has a sizeable weight screwed in to the underside of the top half of it.
So, moral of the story, if your mouse stops working, blame the cat.
-Ath
I was loathe to open it up to see if it was fixable, fearing the innards might be too complex to allow for that without breaking something.
So, I order up myself a Logitech MX518 Optical Gaming Mouse which after (Sh|C)it(t)y Link screwing up the delivery yesterday finally arrived today. Plug new mouse in, it's wonderful, although woah! way more sensitive (so tuned that down a bit).
So, new mouse arrived and confirmed working, time to open up the old one to see what the problem was. First off, just two screws and it comes apart easily. Inside the way the thumb button works is quite funky but obviously works well. Then on investigation the mouse wheel is of an optical variety. The wheel itself has spokes the turning of which is detected by an LED+optical sensor shining through (or not) them.
Why wasn't it working? CAT FUR. So this little furball was the reason ! Although to be fair, having had the mouse so long, I did 'live with' another cat for a while with the same mouse in use. But, yes, cat fur, stuffed in blocking all the spokes, and in a few other places inside too.
Interesting that old mouse is too light by itself, with just the button mechanisms and electronics in it. It has a sizeable weight screwed in to the underside of the top half of it.
So, moral of the story, if your mouse stops working, blame the cat.
-Ath
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