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Title: How long is yours? Joystick height!
Post by: eds1275 on February 28, 2014, 07:20:01 pm

I was playing on Lime-Aid, The Lime Arcade today. It has an X-Arcade stick in it. It's not really a good stick but I prefer the feel of the clicking over the super-smoothness of my U-360's. Another thing I noticed is that it sits taller. My U-360's seem very low by comparison, and I'll be adding a thin layer of metal to my control panel next week, bringing joystick height down another hair.

The X-Arcade is currently 2 7/8(ish) tall. The u-360 is like 2 3/8. I'm going to add a few small washers between the bottom of the bat-top and the shaft to raise it up, and in the future order the extra long handles. The X-Arcade bat top is fairly bulbous in comparison to the Ultimarc.

Is there a standard joystick height?

I have under-mounted all my joysticks and realize top mounting would give me the glory I seek... but if I can get away without rebuilding my control panel from scratch I most definitely will!

Title: Re: How long is yours? Joystick height!
Post by: JDFan on February 28, 2014, 07:27:41 pm

Using Happ competition joysticks in 1\2 MDF on my bartop and the joys sit right at 3" from the CP top to the top of the stick.

Title: Re: How long is yours? Joystick height!
Post by: PL1 on February 28, 2014, 08:50:40 pm

Have you checked out the joystick mount (http://newwiki.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?title=FAQ#Joysticks) section of the FAQ?

You can get a very shallow mount-depth and keep the top of the CP smooth using support blocks like EMDB did.


Scott

Title: Re: How long is yours? Joystick height!
Post by: mgb on February 28, 2014, 08:57:18 pm

Either way you mean it, I'm just under an inch. :)

The ball top is just under an inch from the cp top on mine