Hello.
I'm making a homemade flight joystick. It's a full metal cockpit, very realistic, but I'm having a problem with the joystick itself.
The movement of the stick is very short, and the potentiometers have a very long travel compared to it.
The interface has 5v and I'm using 5k ohms potentiometers. My question is: Is there any way I can shorten the potentiometer's travel?
A way to fix this problem is by using gears (a big one in the stick with a small one in the potentiometer), but it would be difficult to get gears in my town.
Another solution I was thinking about is by putting 10k ohms potentiometers instead, so with half travel it might give 5v, would it work? I'm begginer at this so can someone to confirm this?
Thanks for reading
I'm making a homemade flight joystick. It's a full metal cockpit, very realistic, but I'm having a problem with the joystick itself.
The movement of the stick is very short, and the potentiometers have a very long travel compared to it.
The interface has 5v and I'm using 5k ohms potentiometers. My question is: Is there any way I can shorten the potentiometer's travel?
A way to fix this problem is by using gears (a big one in the stick with a small one in the potentiometer), but it would be difficult to get gears in my town.
Another solution I was thinking about is by putting 10k ohms potentiometers instead, so with half travel it might give 5v, would it work? I'm begginer at this so can someone to confirm this?
Thanks for reading
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