Post by Hawkeye on Mar 8, 2013 11:33:34 GMT -6
Since a few of you have these I wanted to post something.
The other night I couldn't do squat in the Camel except get killed and I couldn't figure out why, so I spent some time today practicing and checking things out to see what's up with this. Following a session of fighting I noticed the thing trying to roll left by itself. I went into the Responses utility, and even though it was good before I had started, it was messed up now. The center was an average of 10% off to the left and it would only go some 60-odd percent to the right, and it was unstable, changing each time I moved it back and forth. Jiggling it near the middle, especially moving it fore and aft a tiny amount, made it "pop" back to normal and work perfectly for a bit, but more left-right movement made it go wonky again.
This is the exact same problem I had with my last fighterstick; same axis and everything.
This sure seems like a spikey pot to me; it's got bad spots in it's range of motion. This is not what I'd call a high-quality pot's performance, like everybody says they're known for. This stick didn't last long at all. It seems like whoever is making CH now is substituting cheaper pots in place of what they used to use. I found a site that advertised as "the CH store" and sells parts for CH sticks including these pots. However it's root site is Chinese, and it does look like they make industrial controllers, with CH as some kind of subsidiary. For all I know, they own CH now....but I don't have enough trust right now to order new pots and give them my CC number.
I just wanted all you whom it could affect to keep an eye on your stick's performance, and the Responses utility in RoF is an excellent tool for that. If your stick is older, it may actually have better parts in it. But if it's newer, watch out for these kind of problems. I am now going to keep two Fightersticks rebuilding the bad one so I have one ready to go at all times. I'll let you know if I find a trustworthy site for the 100,000 ohm potentiometers they use inside. Here's the link to the one I found which I'm not sure about:
www.res-rich.com/chproducts_com/www.chproducts.com/shop/parts.html
The other night I couldn't do squat in the Camel except get killed and I couldn't figure out why, so I spent some time today practicing and checking things out to see what's up with this. Following a session of fighting I noticed the thing trying to roll left by itself. I went into the Responses utility, and even though it was good before I had started, it was messed up now. The center was an average of 10% off to the left and it would only go some 60-odd percent to the right, and it was unstable, changing each time I moved it back and forth. Jiggling it near the middle, especially moving it fore and aft a tiny amount, made it "pop" back to normal and work perfectly for a bit, but more left-right movement made it go wonky again.
This is the exact same problem I had with my last fighterstick; same axis and everything.
This sure seems like a spikey pot to me; it's got bad spots in it's range of motion. This is not what I'd call a high-quality pot's performance, like everybody says they're known for. This stick didn't last long at all. It seems like whoever is making CH now is substituting cheaper pots in place of what they used to use. I found a site that advertised as "the CH store" and sells parts for CH sticks including these pots. However it's root site is Chinese, and it does look like they make industrial controllers, with CH as some kind of subsidiary. For all I know, they own CH now....but I don't have enough trust right now to order new pots and give them my CC number.
I just wanted all you whom it could affect to keep an eye on your stick's performance, and the Responses utility in RoF is an excellent tool for that. If your stick is older, it may actually have better parts in it. But if it's newer, watch out for these kind of problems. I am now going to keep two Fightersticks rebuilding the bad one so I have one ready to go at all times. I'll let you know if I find a trustworthy site for the 100,000 ohm potentiometers they use inside. Here's the link to the one I found which I'm not sure about:
www.res-rich.com/chproducts_com/www.chproducts.com/shop/parts.html
