[sdiy] looking for a joystick

[Jason Proctor]

or maybe he had his team of drones extracting springs :-)

yeah i see where the spring is, apart from my famous klutzness there
shouldn't be a problem removing them... adding beer in 3... 2.. 1...


On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Tom Bugs <admin at bugbrand.co.uk> wrote:

> 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> 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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