Is anyone familiar with this trigger and 2 button joystick? M.A.C.H. 3, maybe?

[TAG]

I picked this up on eBay recently for my (future) cab, since it was so much cheaper than the Happ heavy duty trigger stick that I had originally planned on getting.

My CP will be 3/4 in. MDO, and in looking at the joystick’s shaft, there’s about 1 3/8 in. between the bottom of the stick and the top of the base.  That seems like it would be enough for me to mount the joystick under the panel with t-nuts/bolts, so long as I drill a hole large enough to allow the joystick to hit the switches at the bottom (I estimate about 1 1/2 in., maybe slightly larger).  Does anyone see any potential problems with that idea?  Personally, it seems like it would be too high if I mounted it on top of the panel.

Also, for anyone who’s familiar with this stick (which looks like the M.A.C.H. 3 stick on KLOV’s site), which buttons/connections do each of the 4 colored wires (orange, green, blue, and yellow) go to?  I suppose ground/common is the most important, since I can always change the buttons from inside the games, but if anyone happens to know ahead of time, it would sure be a help to know.

Thanks for any help you can provide!

[Ummon]

Yeah, though basically it's a general purpose flight stick. Happ sells them I think and there should be schematics on their site.

[TAG]

Yeah, though basically it's a general purpose flight stick. Happ sells them I think and there should be schematics on their site.

Thanks.  I know there's a similar one available from Happ, and I know people have had some success mounting that one under the panel, so I figured this one would work the same.

While I've looked at the mounting and exploded views for that one, there's nothing there identifying which wires control which buttons.  I imagine I'll just have to test them once I get ready to install, but I thought I'd ask around, first, just in case anyone had worked with this particular joystick before.

[SavannahLion]

While I've looked at the mounting and exploded views for that one, there's nothing there identifying which wires control which buttons.  I imagine I'll just have to test them once I get ready to install, but I thought I'd ask around, first, just in case anyone had worked with this particular joystick before.

If you have a multimeter, finding the pinout on something like this would be trivial.

You do have a multimeter... right?

[TAG]

You do have a multimeter... right?

Yes, I do, but without anything wired up, I guess I didn't know that it could be used to figure out which wire went to which button.  I'll take a look through those tutorials, thanks for the link.