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shardian:
Maybe I am lost, but what does it matter if you have physically restricted the stick? You can calibrate the max range of the joystick in windows anyways.
NoOne=NBA=:

--- Quote from: Neverending Project on January 21, 2008, 04:26:10 pm ---Another thought... for a yoke, how will you get 270° travel?
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The originals use a drive gear on both pots that is smaller than the gear hooked to the axis.
This increases the amount of travel on the pot relative to the actual movement of the yoke.
ark_ader:
Why bother with the pots. 

Use a mouse hack.   

Its easier and quicker like the Dark Side.......
waveryder:
I have a smaller gear for that will be mounted on the pot. The gear ratio is 2:1. This is where my confusion about the required pot comes in. The full 270degs will be used but the yokes travel will only be 90degs across each axis (+/- 45 each way) thats where my confusion about the required pot comes in. I have done a little more research and have found that on amp building forums people are using 4K7 linear pots to replace 5K's as the tolerance makes them essentially the same thing. Can anyone enlighten me on that? ark_ader Yes the dark side is more seductive.........but the DS hack will be used to interface a lot of other analogue controls as im changing my cabs control system to "Hot swap" metal panels. The yoke is the first of hopefully many.
Minwah:

--- Quote from: ark_ader on January 21, 2008, 09:25:32 pm ---Why bother with the pots. 

Use a mouse hack.   

Its easier and quicker like the Dark Side.......

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I don't think it will work as the controller is restricted, it will lose calibration easily.  Someone beginning with 'J' (IIRC) made one like this years ago...it looked sweet but he commented that he should have used pots!

I think you could use 5k pots as someone else suggested.  As long as they rotate a reasonable amount then as someone else said you can calibrate in Windows.
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