>year of our lord 2027
>picrel is still garbage tech
How come there's literally no possibility of scroll wheels not shitting themselves like 2 weeks after I start using any new mouse?
This is planned, right?
>year of our lord 2027. >picrel is still garbage tech
For the last 20+ years I have never owned any mouse with a mechanical rotary encoder.
Optical scrolls are indestructible.
I believe in nothing now, but will look into this.
Optical rotary sensors in mice are actually older than optical mice.
how does it know which way you are scrolling?
the light beam will go in reverse if you scroll backwards
There are actually two 1-bit detectors so it can distinguish four positions of the wheel.
One direction is 00-01-11-10 loop another is 00-10-11-01 loop.
Mechanical encoders work the same.
Most modern encoders use graycode.
Yes and my example was 2-bit graycode, because mouse scrolls don't use more than 2 bits.
His scroll wheel obviously isn’t gray coded though.
How and why is it not? Both mechanical and optical use it all the time.
I cleaned the dust inside my 4 year-old MX Master 3, it feels like I bought a new mouse
You must be an absolutely disgusting person. I’m not the most hygienic but the scroll wheels on all but my cheapest mouses have lasted me over 5 years.
Anon, they're like $1 for a pack of 50 off of Aliexpress. Just replace them. Takes 10 mins at most for your first time. 2 mins afterwards.
my mouse doesn't have this issue
I suddenly understand why these awful mice are so popular with moronic slobs.
maybe stop buying cheap chinkshit mice, poorhomosexual
How? Optical encoders are used on even the cheapest of mice.
>why does everything I use break while no one else has any problems?
>it must be a problem with the technology
Logitech has some electromagnetic scroll wheels, but dunno how they hold up in time.
Those are mostly for their automatic detent system, which is part of the MX series and probably the MS Precision Surface mouse that they probably OEMed. Depending on how fast the mouse wheel is going, the detents would disengage allowing you to just send it. This system was terribly fragile for a long time and was supposedly fixed with that electromagnetic system. There's a seperate PCB on the left side of the wheel, which probably is for tracking how far the wheel has moved and how fast via hall effect sensors.
Even the cheapest mice like the b100 use optical sensors like
for detecting how far the mouse has moved, which is also probably bulletproof. The electromagnetic system is cool and all, but I don't see them bringing it down to their lower SKUs due to the flying ribbon cable.
is probably right anyways.
just don't buy razor garbage
from aliexpress