[sdiy] looking for a joystick

[Tom Bugs]

They are sprung as standard - or at least the ones I got were (maybe 
Doepfer got custom ones?)

You can remove the springs by taking the backs off the pot - carefully, 
of course - and make sure the back goes back on firmly to keep the 
tension on the stick (otherwise it gets excessively droopy)

On 18/04/2016 20:49, Jason Proctor wrote:
> well the joysticks arrived from China. they seem mostly fine, except 
> despite having the exact same part number as the Doepfer one, they are 
> sprung-return. this is a little annoying as they are no use to me 
> unless i can disable it somehow. i will attempt to sort it RSN...
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Tom Bugs <admin at bugbrand.co.uk 
> <mailto:admin at bugbrand.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Florian,
>
>     Having now tested the TBM joystick - good news - it works nicely
>     like this.
>
>     The mechanism is somewhat similar to the Alps joystick, but more
>     refined - two hemispherical paths, whereas the Alp one seems to
>     have one linear and one hemisphere + is overall much more compact.
>
>     You can move the paddle along the bottom of one axis without
>     raising the output voltage/resistance - the good thing is that
>     doesn't mean there's a dead-spot of travel if, for example, the
>     paddle is in a central position - I checked that too and change
>     occurs as soon as it leaves the bottom position.
>
>     I'm noting that I'll need to leave a relatively larger panel hole
>     for the paddle movement compared with the Alps. I think the paddle
>     moves to a wider angle than than for the alps - perhaps 90degree
>     side-to-side compared with 60 for the Alps (guessing that)
>
>     Best! Tom
>
>     On 05/04/2016 09:44, Florian Anwander wrote:
>
>         Hello
>
>         Am 05.04.2016 um 10:28 schrieb Tom Bugs:
>
>             I made this suggestion a few months back for a similar
>             query::::
>             http://www.tbm-japan.com/english/product/07joy.html
>
>         To my experience all the joysticks built like these have one
>         problem: you cannot reach a postion "max(X), max(Y)", because
>         the top mask (right word?) is circular shaped. I'd always look
>         for a joystick, where the mask is a square.
>
>         Florian
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