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| Bender:
--- Quote from: Stub on May 19, 2008, 11:20:21 am ---Yes but Bender is working on a miniplug with the magnet attached to to back of the plug but. which solves the problem, but I have made on of these myself and I don't have room to install a restricter plate. I do like the feel of the circular restricter. --- End quote --- --- Quote from: Franco B on May 19, 2008, 12:04:13 pm ---I imagine you will have to lower the PCB as the shaft/jack/magnet will be longer than the standard shaft/magnet? I don't know exactly how the U360s work but you may have to compensate for the extra travel of the magnet due to the increased distance from the pivot. --- End quote --- without restrictor with restrictor I am working on this. This is not the final but you get the idea, You do have to increase the distance of the PCB to compensate for the mini plug, and with a small modification those SICK, SICKly awesome gold joysticks could be retrofited. The last thing I need for that project are custom shafts and actually I think Franco is going to save the day on that too! Just Stunning, Stunning, work on those sticks Franco! :notworthy: Fantastic Project somunny! :applaud: |
| Franco B:
Nice work bender! Does the U360 function the same with/without the restrictor plate? Im guessing it doesnt really matter how close the magnet is to the sensor then? Where did you get your miniplugs from? I was looking for some a while ago but couldnt find anything suitable. |
| Jetson:
I was thinking if the magnet thing doesn't work out for you, you could use a regular shaft and put a brass sleeve on it instead of using the solid brass shaft. |
| Bender:
--- Quote from: Franco B on May 20, 2008, 01:13:53 am ---Nice work bender! Does the U360 function the same with/without the restrictor plate? Im guessing it doesnt really matter how close the magnet is to the sensor then? Where did you get your miniplugs from? I was looking for some a while ago but couldnt find anything suitable. --- End quote --- You do have some play as to how far the magnet should be from the PCB, but in my final design the distance will be the same with or without the restrictor, and the same as the original I got the mini plugs for a place called vetco the harder part was finding the jack, I'm using the tiny 2.5mm ones and I could only find either panel mount or PCB mount and they wouldn't fit into the shaft, so I bought some cables and took the jack side out of those. Some are better than others I was able to find one that had a 6mm(outside diameter) jack that works perfectly, unfortunatly it's from radio shack and discontinued. So long story short trying to find a small jack is the trick Did you find any jacks that would fit in the shaft? |
| Stub:
At around having the magnet an inch away from the pcb ( in center position ) it seems to lose tracking at the outside of its travel. We should be able to compensate for different distances by creating custom restrictor profiles. |
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