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Re: Making a 5k joystick work

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Originally Posted by Ben.V.293
a member of our teams father has found some very nice joysticks in the dumpster where he works. they have 5k pots on them and the biggest range we can get out of them is from 1.7k-2.7k. our programers tell us that the range they will give us will be to small to be accurate. I was wondering if these could work and if so how.

Thanks
Ben Van Selous
Your programmers are correct. The IFI Operator Interface wants 100k pots, and the 5k ones will give you only a few counts at the extreme end of the range.

The joysticks can be made to work by keeping the mechanical assembly but replacing the 5k pots.