Cougar hall sensor microstick mod
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Cool mod ! Super idea !
Can you give us the type of hall sensors you have used ? And how to connect them ?
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Cool mod ! Super idea !
Can you give us the type of hall sensors you have used ? And how to connect them ?
Sure!
The sensor is the HONEYWELL Hall Effect Sensor Linear - SS495A (Bipolar)The connectivity was a bit tricky because the sensor layout is different than the stock pot, so i had to cross the output lead and bring it in the middle and carefully isolate it so it will not short circuit. The whole thing took me a around four days to make, because the board got damaged during desoldering (many have the same issue) and it took me ages to repair it.
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Now THAT is slick!!!
Dave
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The connectivity was a bit tricky because the sensor layout is different than the stock pot, so i had to cross the output lead and bring it in the middle and carefully isolate it so it will not short circuit. The whole thing took me a around four days to make, because the board got damaged during desoldering (many have the same issue) and it took me ages to repair it.
I have boards left. Only the PCbs. anyone needing one can contact me
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My Cougar’s microstick started to fail, so i decided to remove the pots and replace them with DIY hall sensors and neodymium magnets.
My stick and throttle have similar mods…so far everything works like a dream.A very nice mod can you please provide us instructions and parts that used in order to have it as a guide for future micro stick fix - a video or pdf guide with images could be very helpful
Kind Regards
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A very nice mod can you please provide us instructions and parts that used in order to have it as a guide for future micro stick fix - a video or pdf guide with images could be very helpful
Kind Regards
Thanks!
I will try to make some drawings to show how everything works. The hardest part though is the small size and space constrains of the whole thing.
Geraki? Are you Greek by any chance?
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So i believe that you stripped the existing micro stick chassis from the pots and put linear hall effect sensors to the places where the pot bodies would go. Did you sacrifice the push button?
Great idea and great execution. Congrats!
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Looks great, it sucks that the H.E. manufacturers dont just follow a pot pinout, i.e. pin 1 gnd pin 2 out pin 3 vcc.
Two questions.
1.Why two magnets on each? Not enough swing?
2. How did you orient them? -
So i believe that you stripped the existing micro stick chassis from the pots and put linear hall effect sensors to the places where the pot bodies would go. Did you sacrifice the push button?
Great idea and great execution. Congrats!
I believe you are correct. If you study the first pic, it looks like he popped off just the pot body and glued on a plastic bar to the existing wiper. Not sure if he removed the entire chassis though since he had to remove the pins going from the pot through the PCB from the pot and that must be a PITA with the chassis in place. Then you have to install the HE sensor and solder it. He does say he trashed the PCB while doing it so maybe. I will try it and see if it’s feasible to do it without removing the entire assy. I think if I snip the pot leads and pull them out one at a time, maybe. I’ll know when I see it in front of me…sky_walker, let us know what you did.
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Subscribing…apparently I now need something like this rather urgently One axis of the microstick in my code test rig died last night and that was using my last spare Cougar set
If this is even somewhat doable for people with limited fabrication skills, I’d love to try it but I’d need adult supervision (read: detailed instructions I guess ;)) to get it right I’m sure.