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Ultimarc U360 Mod to add rotary function&Top-fire/LED
AndyWarne:
Looks good!
How are you maintaining the gap between the optical disk and the PCB with the sensor?
Andy
Bender:
--- Quote from: AndyWarne on April 08, 2008, 05:29:53 pm ---Looks good!
How are you maintaining the gap between the optical disk and the PCB with the sensor?
Andy
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the top half of the encoder housing (the bottom two pieces in the diagram above) is attached to the metal collar, the optical disk is press-fit onto an extension of the joystick shaft, then the bottom part of the housing (top piece in diagram) clips onto the top with the optical wheel in the center.
The optical disc is reflective with black lines printed on it so there is only a sensor on the top, you don't actually need the bottom part of the housing except to keep stuff out
Dazz:
Andy... you're taking notes right? Get these into production and I'll definitely make the switch to U360R's! I want to add rotary joysticks, but I also want to get some digital controllers like your U360. This mod is a marriage made in heaven....
Warborg:
--- Quote from: Dazz on April 08, 2008, 10:14:44 pm ---Andy... you're taking notes right? Get these into production and I'll definitely make the switch to U360R's! I want to add rotary joysticks, but I also want to get some digital controllers like your U360. This mod is a marriage made in heaven....
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Amen.
AndyWarne:
This is certainly creeping up the priority list. I have a couple of other products in development which are taking up 110% of available time at the moment but I will get onto this.
Thanks to Bender for considerably shortening the R&D time!
To productionize this would mean getting new chrome-plated shafts made but this is not a great issue since we already have replacement longer shafts being produced so this is just a variant.
The U-shaped brackets were expensive to tool-up so we would need to think about which way to do this, possibly spacers would avoid new tooling.
Either the fixed pillar or the flat slotted plate or both would need to be made from nylon or some plastic as metal-metal contact here would not be good.
Andy