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Kremmit:
--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on May 30, 2007, 07:29:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: shorthair on May 30, 2007, 02:55:08 pm ---I don't know how you'd handle the wiring on that, though. As well, you may need the long shaft.
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Not necessarily...... a Happ trigger stick handle would just bolt straight on to the short stick shaft. As for wiring... it wouldn't be that difficult to drill the stick shaft. You only need to run a single wire.... You could use the metal shaft itself as the ground wire and run a single wire to the switch. Can be done!
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
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You've got the problem of the magnet on the bottom of th shaft; can't drill that. And you've got to add an anti-twist mechanism to keep the wire(s) from getting twisted and broken.
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: Kremmit on May 30, 2007, 10:36:42 pm ---
--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on May 30, 2007, 07:29:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: shorthair on May 30, 2007, 02:55:08 pm ---I don't know how you'd handle the wiring on that, though. As well, you may need the long shaft.
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Not necessarily...... a Happ trigger stick handle would just bolt straight on to the short stick shaft. As for wiring... it wouldn't be that difficult to drill the stick shaft. You only need to run a single wire.... You could use the metal shaft itself as the ground wire and run a single wire to the switch. Can be done!
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
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You've got the problem of the magnet on the bottom of th shaft; can't drill that. And you've got to add an anti-twist mechanism to keep the wire(s) from getting twisted and broken.
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As far as I know the magnet is a ring... so the bottom of the shaft is accesible and could be drilled. As for anti twist in the wires, I'm not sure that you would need to. If they pass out of the bottom of the shaft they're not going to get twisted.
I might just have a go at this.... I wanted to build a flight stick panel anyway and this sounds like the way to go to me. That said I was planning on way more buttons. I've got an original (real) helecopter stick that has all the buttons that you usually find on a jet fighter on it so I'm thinking of converting that. If I do it I'll post the pictures.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
Kremmit:
--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear link=topic=67241.msg682208#msg682208 --- If they pass out of the bottom of the shaft they're not going to get twisted.
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I don't think you've thought that part through. If they're attached to the switch in the top of the handle, and they're attached to something else under the control panel, and the handle gets twisted, they're gonna twist.
--- Quote ---As far as I know the magnet is a ring... so the bottom of the shaft is accesible and could be drilled
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If you're right about that, then there is hope. Look up how SlikStik handles wire twist on their illuminated balltop handles. Something smaller might work on the U360.
ahofle:
You can use one of these on the bottom to solve the twisting problem:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?TabID=1&ModuleNo=29686&doy=1m6
Kremmit:
--- Quote from: ahofle on June 01, 2007, 11:02:43 am ---You can use one of these on the bottom to solve the twisting problem:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?TabID=1&ModuleNo=29686&doy=1m6
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Only if you can find a female receptacle that'll fit into the bottom of the U360 shaft without interfering with the magnet, and a male plug that'll fit between the bottom of the shaft and the joystick PCB. Also, it must not interfere with the Hall-Effect sensors or the USB socket.
http://www.ultimarc.com/images/UltraStik1.jpg
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