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Anyone have experience with these cheap control kits?
« on: September 22, 2015, 07:41:02 am »
Anyone have experience with these cheap control kits?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201389404141

Good, bad, ugly?
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Re: Anyone have experience with these cheap control kits?
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2015, 08:26:53 am »
None personally, but I have to hear of anyone who's not tired of them after a few days. Sticks tend to lack any real feedback and buttons have a terrible propensity to stick. Controls is one of those things you don't want to skimp on, unless you are only building a cabinet for the fun of it.
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Re: Anyone have experience with these cheap control kits?
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2015, 09:26:46 am »
the USB encoder isnt bad, but those sticks and buttons look pretty terrible. I'll have to echo te sentiment above, you dont want to skimp on controls.
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Re: Anyone have experience with these cheap control kits?
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2015, 08:10:13 pm »
Quote from: Alejo I on September 22, 2015, 08:26:53 am
None personally, but I have to hear of anyone who's not tired of them after a few days. Sticks tend to lack any real feedback and buttons have a terrible propensity to stick. Controls is one of those things you don't want to skimp on, unless you are only building a cabinet for the fun of it.
Seem like they are pretty good if you are craigslisting it and will never see the buyer again.
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Re: Anyone have experience with these cheap control kits?
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2015, 03:59:05 am »
Well I'm intending to put together a small bartop using parts/left overs from other projects I already have. This would not be sold on so I'm thinking for the sake of £20 I may order a kit, use them to assembly the machine and then if they are junk just replace with better components.
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Re: Anyone have experience with these cheap control kits?
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2015, 10:01:50 am »
I just bought one of those encoders and so far, so good.
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