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joy stick control

Discussion in 'New users start here - FAQ' started by terry wells, Apr 20, 2014.

  1. terry wells

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    By changing what settings would slow down my joy stick control? I have read the manual over and over and I am sure that I have missed something. My motors keep going when ever I try to use roll or pitch. here are my settings that I am using at this time. I am using Sim Force GT for my defult preset.
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    Hi Terry,

    Your potentiometers need to be connected to the motors in order to give the software feedback on where the motors are at any given time.
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    could you give me a wiring diagram on how I might do that? I have them hooked up pre drawing using the SMC3 software. The motors do stop at some point when I level out the aircraft in the game but then the platform is not in the position that I am flying the aircraft. Thanks for the reply.
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    Hi Terry,

    It is not a wiring job, you have them wired correctly. The shaft of the potentiometer needs to be physically connected to the output on the motor. The motor needs to not only move the platform but also the knob/shaft of the pot.

    Look at the pictures of my winch motors and my potentiometers, notice the gear linking the shaft of the potentiometer to the output gear of the winch motor. This is how the software knows where the motor is.

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    When the pot and motor output are both facing the same direction (like mine are) they need to be moving in opposite directions that way when the motor moves counter clockwise the pot will move clockwise. The motor is always sort of chasing the pot to move it to the desired (by the software) position. If your motor moves in the same direction as your pot then just reverse polarity of the motor.

    Hope this helped.

    David
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    David
    That makes total sense, I am going to try to connect the pots to the motors some way for this proto-type that I built but in the future when I start to build my platform I think that I will be using the winch motors. Thanks for the pictures, I will keep you informed on how this will work.
    Terry W.
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