Control Yoke Potentiometers
Hi
At the moment, I use a home made gearboxes to increase the rotation of potentiometers for the throttle levers, prop and mixture. Without full rotation of the pot spindle, activation is insufficient.
I am thinking of building a yoke system, but notice that builders interface directly with the (usually) slide potentiometer without any gearing? The aileron axis pot (might) travel the full distance, but the elevator pot will only travel part way (unless the yoke is pushed through the instrument panel as well as being pulled back to floor level to fully activate the pot!!).
Is there a special value of pot that will do the job (I have been trying 100k).
Is it possible to use only part of the full sweep, and configure in FSUIPC?
Can anyone let me into the secret?
Thanks.
TONY.
Drove me nuts! but I did it years ago.
Hi again Tony
What it all boils down to Tony is you can direct drive a potentiometer
with a yoke or throttle handle or you can gear drive them.
Ether way they will work just fine. It’s all up to you!
This is good advice from Marnix
Pay attention if you use potentiometers with a higher K value, they tend to cause more jitter then the lower ones. I always used 100K.
I take it you have already been experimenting?
Go back and redo your experiments.
Make sure your inputs are wired correctly! 100K pots
If your pot only turns a small amount set it at the high
end of its rotation.
Go into Windows /desktop/joystick and make a custom joystick.
for example 3 axes 2 button joystick and install it.
You will have to install all 3 potentiometers or the computer won't
see the joystick.
Install momentary switches so you can configure the joystick.
Check to make sure windows is seeing the joystick!
If windows is showing the joystick installed and working.
Start flight simulator and calibrate the joystick.
Check and make sure that the sensitivity of your axis is turned up!!!!!
Flight simulator has a bad habit of starting you off with your sensitivities turned way down or off. Best of luck.
You do not need to use FSUIPC
Hope this helps
Ron