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"dirty" potentiometers?? (with AKI )
alphasqorner:
I have the spring loaded pots from a world series cp and I bought the AKI from Dave. I believe I have wired them correctly to both X and Y axis' then grounded the Z axis as specified for unused axis'.
But my problem is, when I calibrate the controls, they seem to flicker around and don't seem to want to go to their extreme positions consistently. Is there some kind of pot maintenance/cleaning that my controls need?
I am 100% sure it is wired correctly so I'm thinking it's the pots or something related to them.
Lilwolf:
I had the same problem in beta. We tried changing the timing of the polling and this and that. It ended up that I needed to rewire the stick itself and the problems went away... and that I needed to ground (or unground) to the chassy I can't remember.
but if anyone knows how to clean a pot. I would love to hear.
Brunnen-G:
http://store.caig.com/s.nl/sc.2/category.183/.f
Lilwolf:
wow at those prices... it might be worth buying another pot based joystick on ebay and hope for a better set.
alphasqorner:
--- Quote from: Lilwolf on July 07, 2005, 07:53:45 am ---I had the same problem in beta. We tried changing the timing of the polling and this and that. It ended up that I needed to rewire the stick itself and the problems went away... and that I needed to ground (or unground) to the chassy I can't remember.
but if anyone knows how to clean a pot. I would love to hear.
--- End quote ---
hey lilwolf, what kind of re-wiring did you have to do? did you have to swap the "axis" and +5 connections? (or swap ground with axis, or any combo of the three)
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