Joystick Assembly/Wireing help

[hunterjwizzard]

So I got one of these http://www.ultimarc.com/servostik.html joysticks, and have hit a wall pretty much right away. There is no documentation whatsoever beyond the advertising copy. After hours of searching the web I have figured out that I need to dasey chain the Common leads and then wire each of the Normally Open leads up to... and thats where the wall comes up.

The controller board has only 4 leads on it, unhelpfully labeled 1+ 1- 2+ and 2-, I can assume these are the axis, and that the NOs should be wired to them(though in what order I am unsure). But that leaves me with three other leads(the common and the two wires from the motor/servo) and no clues as to where they should go(the image on the site seems to depict the two wires from the motor going into either the two far-right slots on the control board or the two middle slots, however the control board that I have in my posession is different from the one depicted).

I've had no luck posting on other forums so here's hoping for some help.

Thank you.

[PL1]

Welcome aboard, Hunterjwizzard.

The controller board has only 4 leads on it, unhelpfully labeled 1+ 1- 2+ and 2-

The controller board is only used to control the switching between 4-way and 8-way for up to 2 sticks.

I'm pretty sure you connect the red and black motor leads to 1+ and 1- respectively.

I have figured out that I need to dasey chain the Common leads and then wire each of the Normally Open leads up to... and thats where the wall comes up.

What you need to connect to the microswitches is an encoder like an I-Pac.


The daisy chain ground connects to the upper right, with the Normally Open (NO) microswitch leads from the joystick directions and buttons going to the other screw terminals as labeled on the board.


Scott

[hunterjwizzard]

Ahhhh, all right, that explains a lot.

Tell me: would something like the uhid(http://u-hid.com/home/index.php) controller board also work? I already have one of those on order.

[PL1]

A U-HID will work just fine.

More expensive than an I-Pac, but much more versatile.

Hope you bought a wiring harness to go with it. (MUCH easier that way.)


Scott

[hunterjwizzard]

I'd actually been planning a lot of uses for the u-hid, the joystick was an after-thoguht, but I ended up getting it first thanks to a bit of a mix-up. Its just good to know I won't have to ALSO purchase an I-pac now.

Thank you so much for your help!

[chopperthedog]

Wait a minute. 1+ (red of motor one) 1- (black of motor one) 2+ (red for motor 2) 2- (black for motor 2) if you got a pair like I did (derp! PL1 covered that part already ). Switching is done via the control/usb with the joytray.exe. Now you can add the command line entries to each game start to go to the respective 4/8 way. Also if you use mala "daoldman" made a mala plug in that can spare you having to add an entry to each game launch along with a couple other features. His plugin reads from the control.ini and will switch based upon that during game launch. If you were gonna go with a toggle switch you need to permanently (no going back) kill the usb feature of the board and splice the toggle or buttons to the cut usb cable.

*edit* each motor needs it's own connection for the purposes of knowing when to stop them via resistance when it reaches the end of its travel.

*another edit* to use buttons to switch with an ipac you will need to reassign 2 switches on the ipac to use F4 and F8 along with the joytray.exe running in the back ground.


good day.