Replacing microstick double pot - latest intelligence please
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I think that finally sunrrrise and Icarus have made a peace with me ( I assume it)
The OP( I learned this abbreviation from this forum) is still silent without answering me.
Thommo( thank you!, although I don’t know you), answered the question in the very beginning.My new mod should come out next week, and goodbye to BMS members!
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Well this one has run a lot longer than I expected! Thanks to everyone who has contributed - and do keep on, it feels like we are getting somewhere!
So there are no more TM microsticks, but on the plus side there’s a supply of dirt cheap X-box microsticks - 2 pots and a press switch - on ebay. Great.
Leaves 4 issues I can think of: (1) physical shape is slightly different, as the switch sticks out of one side, but it looks like from those very helpful videos it will go in the available space;
(2) fixing it into place - the mould-making solution looks a bit labour-intensive for a one-off to me; I don’t for a few weeks have access to my workshop to try out alternative bodging solutions (which only just have to be good enough eg ‘araldite’);
(3) do the X-box pots actually function in the Cougar (I don’t know if they have to be same resistance, or if Cougar calibration can deal with different values - I think the Cougar pots are rated 100k but the X box are 10k?)
(4) soldering the X-box pins presumably by wire back to the connector (on the basis that making a PCB is also too much like hard work).Any thoughts? The reason of course this matters is that without the Cougar microstick you can’t actually blow anything up with your BMS F-16!
Alan
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Well this one has run a lot longer than I expected! Thanks to everyone who has contributed - and do keep on, it feels like we are getting somewhere!
So there are no more TM microsticks, but on the plus side there’s a supply of dirt cheap X-box microsticks - 2 pots and a press switch - on ebay. Great.
Leaves 4 issues I can think of: (1) physical shape is slightly different, as the switch sticks out of one side, but it looks like from those very helpful videos it will go in the available space;
(2) fixing it into place - the mould-making solution looks a bit labour-intensive for a one-off to me; I don’t for a few weeks have access to my workshop to try out alternative bodging solutions (which only just have to be good enough eg ‘araldite’);
(3) do the X-box pots actually function in the Cougar (I don’t know if they have to be same resistance, or if Cougar calibration can deal with different values - I think the Cougar pots are rated 100k but the X box are 10k?)
(4) soldering the X-box pins presumably by wire back to the connector (on the basis that making a PCB is also too much like hard work).Any thoughts? The reason of course this matters is that without the Cougar microstick you can’t actually blow anything up with your BMS F-16!
Alan
To solve any problem, you should have
1. A good idea
2. Money
3. Time
4. Endles trails and errors ( a lot of money and time )You initiated this thread, and you already have three solutions
1. TM board
2. My custom board
3. DIY solution
You still hesitate and want more.
What are you willing to sacrifice for a solution?
You may buy one more Cougar from eBay or anywhere for replacement parts (solution #4)
There is no free lunch in this world.
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Po-fu, thanks for the lecture. On your #1, there aren’t any; on your #2, no thanks; on #3, yes I’d welcome any positive ‘how to’ contributions from fellow BMS flyers who are almost without exception in my experience generous with their help and ideas. Forgive me, I’d misunderstood your last post to mean that you’d said ‘goodbye’. If in fact you have, ‘thanks’ and ‘goodbye’.
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Po-fu, thanks for the lecture. On your #1, there aren’t any; on your #2, no thanks; on #3, yes I’d welcome any positive ‘how to’ contributions from fellow BMS flyers who are almost without exception in my experience generous with their help and ideas. Forgive me, I’d misunderstood your last post to mean that you’d said ‘goodbye’. If in fact you have, ‘thanks’ and ‘goodbye’.
Can’t find a way to delete my account…still trying!
So, no worries!Solution #1 see the photos
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Radar cursor switch for sale $45.00 USD
https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?36906-Thrustmaster-cougar-parts-and-Stick&p=513040#post513040 -
Does anyone here with electronics knowledge know what componente should be installed on the pcb of the micrstick?
I´m reasearching to make a pcb to be used with a ps2 o xbox controller, like the one posted, but the guy who would make me the pcb is asking me the components and manufacturer code of them, to give me a price with all installed. Otherwise he can only give me the price of the pcb alone, i would have to install the components myself, and i suck at soldering. -
there is no component on the microstick PCB
It’s only traces to wire the 2 pots and buttons to the other Cougar PCB through the 6 mini pin connectorAlthough the 14 contacts of the microstick assy are soldered on the PCB, only 6 of them are wired to the connector
There is Nothing else than the PCB, the connector and the microstick
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem
Po-Fu’s Last Theorem
“I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain.” -
Thanks for the help Red Dog, but the 6 mini pin connector wouldnt fall on the category of “component” to be sold to the pcb? Do you know which model should be? I´m searching through google and there are a lot of 6 mini pin models, and i have none information on how to know which would be the correct one.
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hello pilots,
a big up fr this diy solution to remplace the microstck cursor enable.
Hawk has done a video on this solution
Sorry it’s in french
the link:
my 2 cents
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Just found out about this today.
https://deltasimelectronics.com/products/cougar-throttle-radar-tdc-slew-upgrade -
Just found out about this today.
https://deltasimelectronics.com/products/cougar-throttle-radar-tdc-slew-upgradeAwesome find. With board, so no soldering. Nice, and all for 27.99 GBP. Can’t beat that.
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Hello,
I ordered it. Today i build it in my Cougar. It works fine out of the box.
Greatings
Dirk