Question about 2-Axis Joystic. #27800

RonP

Hello all,

Maybe someone who has one of these can help me. Can the spring to center be disabled without damaging the mechanism on just one Axis? What kind of spring coil or leaf type or something else?
I would like to simulate the throttle input for RC plane.

Thanks in advance.

Ron

W9GFO

You could disable both axis pretty easily but to disable just one would be more involved. There is only one spring. There is a small disk about 5mm in diameter on the base of the stick. There is a spring loaded piston that pushes up from the bottom against this disk. Any displacement of the joystick causes the piston to be displaced. The piston pushing up against the disk causes the disk to always want to be flat against the piston. You could remove the piston so that there is no spring effect on either axis or you may be able to alter the disk into more of a bar shape so that only one axis of rotation causes a displacement of the piston. I don't think it would be too difficult but I wouldn't call it easy either.

Rich H

RonP

Rich

I planed on ordering a few, getting a list together for Parallax. I'll look at them a little closer when I get them. Thanks for taking the "I wonder" out of my head.

Ron

LoopyByteloose

I might be possible to modify one axis in software so that it doesn't forget an extreme position until it goes past center on a return.

Would that make this useful?

RonP

@Loopy Byteloose

Understood, but I would like the stick to move a servo to any position and be able to stay where it was left and be able to move it again just a little. Without having to pass center or anything else.

Thanks for the idea sounds like it would be useful in other applications.

Ron