Thread: Joysticks
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Unread 29-04-2005, 22:48
Andy A. Andy A. is offline
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Re: Joysticks

Sven-

The wonderful thing about victors is that they are just plain wonderful.

Calibrating a victor requires no programming at all. It's done in hardware. All you do is depress a switch built into the victor and run the joystick through its limits. The data is stored right on the victor, and the RC never knows any better.

Interestingly, I've used this feature a lot. A friend and I have used victors as speed controllers in some RC cars we've retrofit with updated components. Since R/C radio systems have a completely different range of PWM signal, the factory set calibration is way off (a neutral signal from the RC gear is about 1/3 reverse on the factory set calibration). With out the ability to calibrate the victor, they would be useless in any setting that was specifically designed for them (like FIRST).

-Andy A.