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NEW PRODUCT: Ultimarc ServoStik. 4-8 way joystick with powered restrictor.
Frostillicus:
--- Quote from: MacGyver on September 07, 2012, 06:11:43 am ---
Now I'm off to find some hollow JLW shafts :dunno
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If you find them, let me know. I emailed Andy separately and he said they are 10mm in diameter, in both the visible and non-visible sections, and that this is different from Sanwa.
I'd like to figure out an RGB balltop solution somehow.
MacGyver:
They work great, but the mode is backwards. I have probably done something wrong, 4 makes it 8, and 8 makes it 4.
When it's set to 4, the lever is towards the motor side, is this right?
This isn't affecting its use in any way. I simply tell 4-way games to run 8-way, and vice versa, I'm more worried I've mounted the motor wrong.
I will Frosti, ditto if you find them.
millercentral:
Just reverse the wires and that should fix it...
MacGyver:
I didn't know how it knows it's at the end of the movement, so I didn't want to just start flipping wires around and maybe burn something out.
I suspect it's a current draw thing, so it shouldn't matter, but I didn't want to take any chances.
On a side note, wouldn't sleeving my current JLF hollow shafts get them to the proper size? I just was thinking, because those might be easier to find, the hardest parts have been done, the threads, clip-end, hole down the middle, now it pretty much just a width problem. The lengths are the same right?
AndyWarne:
For the people who requested a way of switching the stick between 4 and 8 way with a switch or buttons rather than from a PC this is now implemented.
The control board can be set to "hardware mode" using the test utility. Then 2 buttons or a toggle switch can be wired up, to switch 4-8 way. The page www.ultimarc.com/servostik.html has been updated.