X52 Precision Silder too Sensitiv / Keeps moving slightly

[Mark]

Hello pilots,

i recently boughty myself a used Saitek X52.
I use KesMonkeys profile with the precision slider as FOV axis.

Unfortunately ive got problems with that. The Slider is too sensitive, which means that if i zoom at lets say 10%, the FoV is constantly increasing and decrasing a little bit. Its hard to explain.
Its like a shutter.

Is there a way to delete this? Because it make the game almost unplayable

Cheers,

Mark

[Scuby]

If you go into your Saitek configuration tool, you can set a small deadzone for the slider or any other rotary. No more twitching

Cheers,
Scub

[Agave_Blue]

@Scuby:

If you go into your Saitek configuration tool, you can set a small deadzone for the slider or any other rotary. No more twitching

Cheers,
Scub

Hasn’t worked for me.

No doubt the slider is jittery. I wonder if some contact cleaner on the slider guts would help …. but I’m (very) reluctant to take the dog-gone thing apart.

[Scuby]

@Agave_Blue:

Hasn’t worked for me.

No doubt the slider is jittery. I wonder if some contact cleaner on the slider guts would help …. but I’m (very) reluctant to take the dog-gone thing apart.

That is unfortunate. Maybe I’m lucky with the batch podmeters used in mine. Here the slider only twitches a tiny bit, and is easily removed by a small deadzone.

[Frederf]

Dead zone only translates input axis values around zero input (± depending on dead zone size) to a definite zero output. Everywhere outside the deadzone the input->output relationship is the same quality as without it. A “spiky” potentiometer with a dead zone is still spiky when it’s outside the dead zone.

If the input is unreliable then what you want is either digital or analog steps. Since each step is flat small changes in input do not change the output. With the SST software it is possible to assign a “button axis” which presses buttons at certain points going each direction. Then you map these button inputs to the discrete callbacks to step up and down the FOV. If you can manage to set a “wavy” curve somehow to produce many flat spots with the axis then you can use the analog axis.

There’s also probably some crazy GlovePIE script that will freeze the axis output until it moves a certain amount which will remove jitter when the axis is relatively stationary. I know bubkiss about GlovePIE stuff though.

[lutef1sk]

same for me - back to using the mousewheel…
actually i sarificed the the slider axis to switch the mouseknob (on the throttle) to axes so I can assign the radar cursor on them, which is very satisfying. (so i get that going for me, which is nice)

[Mark]

Does anybody know, if there is a standalone software for axis tune like in DCS?

See:

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=95901

I could add more steps, itll work…

[roach]

I have the same HOTAS and use the same profile with some changes. Yes the precision slider is not that precise, so I made the precision slider control the air brakes, the smaller rotary to control the FOV and the bigger rotary to control radar attitude.

[Agave_Blue]

@roach:

I have the same HOTAS and use the same profile with some changes. Yes the precision slider is not that precise, so I made the precision slider control the air brakes, the smaller rotary to control the FOV and the bigger rotary to control radar attitude.

What do you use for your TGP zoom?

[roach]

@Agave_Blue:

What do you use for your TGP zoom?

Nothing I understand that it might not work for most, but I’m mostly flying air to air so it’s not a big deal for me. Maybe should have mentioned that the first time

[Agave_Blue]

@roach:

Nothing I understand that it might not work for most, but I’m mostly flying air to air so it’s not a big deal for me. Maybe should have mentioned that the first time

:hmmm: …. I might look at rearranging those axes to see if I can get an improved result.

[roach]

@Agave_Blue:

:hmmm: …. I might look at rearranging those axes to see if I can get an improved result.

I wonder if you could have one of those functions assigned to the wheel thingy on the throttle. Tho I use that for radar range inc/dec.

[lutef1sk]

@Mark:

Does anybody know, if there is a standalone software for axis tune like in DCS?

See:

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=95901

I could add more steps, itll work…

maybe not exactly what you want judging from your link… but maybe it’s also possible somehow:
http://www.leobodnar.com/files/DIView.zip
I used it to recenter some axes which didn’t autoalign properly.

[lutef1sk]

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[Shiznit]

I had the same problem awhile ago so I took mine apart and sprayed all of the pots with a cleaner (don’t remember exactly which one now) and it worked brilliantly. My only issue now is the tension ring on the stick keeps binding. I’ve tried a teflon/silicon lubricant but the results are very short term.

Cheers!