Ya same, it’s too bad they dropped it. What I like about Walmis project is it’s reallly the first a

Ya same, it’s too bad they dropped it. What I like about Walmis project is it’s reallly the first affordable way for someone to buy a ready to go stick or kit since the ffb2 days.

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:22 PM

I doubled the amps on mine just by adding some 1ohm resistors to the board and it holds up very well as if it was designed for this

SSwiftVengeance I doubled the amps on mine just by adding some 1ohm resistors to the board and i...

Bard_the_BowmanOP•12/31/22, 8:23 PM

Yes that’s the standard mod. Then there’s a guy that made a guide to quadruple power

Bard_the_BowmanOP•12/31/22, 8:23 PM

And I went farther

Bard_the_BowmanOP•12/31/22, 8:23 PM

Could go MUCH farther by using a break out board with discrete p and n mosfets

BBard_the_Bowman Ya same, it’s too bad they dropped it. What I like about Walmis project is it’s...

Deleted User•12/31/22, 8:24 PM

Next thing we need is a commercial FFB yoke and rudder without having the name "Brunner" and costing a fortune

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:24 PM

Yeah but your still limited by the resolution

SSwiftVengeance Yeah but your still limited by the resolution 😮‍💨

Bard_the_BowmanOP•12/31/22, 8:25 PM

I think you can get around that by outputting to a second board

Bard_the_BowmanOP•12/31/22, 8:25 PM

Just let haven’t tried it yet

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:25 PM

What if you reduce the travel and use a lower turn pots

Bard_the_BowmanOP•12/31/22, 8:25 PM

I need to try wiring them in parallel to the virpil board that’s already in the box

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:26 PM

Since its on a extension it doesnt need to move that much

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:28 PM

Or is the max deflection already small?

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:29 PM

And its using the full range of the pots?

SSwiftVengeance And its using the full range of the pots?

Bard_the_BowmanOP•12/31/22, 8:30 PM

It’s not quite using full range. Or at least not quite the range it would have used stock

Bard_the_BowmanOP•12/31/22, 8:30 PM

Trouble would be a smaller turn pot might not work

Bard_the_BowmanOP•12/31/22, 8:31 PM

Because I suspect that at firmware level the ffb2 probably disregards part of the pots range

Bard_the_BowmanOP•12/31/22, 8:31 PM

I think there’s a certain level of firmware pre calibration

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:39 PM

I mean if you have a pot that only turns as far as the stick deflection then you would be using its full range for example 0v - 5v vs using 1v -4v

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:40 PM

And it can be calibrated in windows joystick page

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:41 PM

Or it can be adjusted with an adc

SSwiftVengeance And it can be calibrated in windows joystick page

Bard_the_BowmanOP•12/31/22, 8:42 PM

I understand but I think that there is a firmware level calibration as well

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:42 PM

I see

Bard_the_BowmanOP•12/31/22, 8:42 PM

That can’t be modified (unless you’re Microsoft lol)

Bard_the_BowmanOP•12/31/22, 8:43 PM

In other words these pots turn farther than the stock stick deflects

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:43 PM

We can figure out what voltage range it accepts

Bard_the_BowmanOP•12/31/22, 8:43 PM

And I believe firmware disregards the extra range

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:43 PM

And then use a solution that maximizes that

Bard_the_BowmanOP•12/31/22, 8:45 PM

Only reason I would have to try that would be to ensure stick is outputting maximum force. As far as I can tell the stick ignores windows calibration when calculating force. So right now, the part of the board that handles force probably thinks I’m only at 80% deflection when I’m actually at 100%

Bard_the_BowmanOP•12/31/22, 8:45 PM

Since my gimbal has less deflection than factory slightly

Bard_the_BowmanOP•12/31/22, 8:46 PM

The reason I know it ignores windows calibration is I had to manually fine-tune position of pots to make sure force was centered correctly

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:46 PM

Yeah it does

Bard_the_BowmanOP•12/31/22, 8:47 PM

When I first built it one of the pots was slightly off center and windows calibration wouldn’t fix

Bard_the_BowmanOP•12/31/22, 8:47 PM

Rotating pot fixed

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:47 PM

But it only sees the voltage

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:47 PM

Doesnt see how much the pot is actually turning

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:49 PM

And you can even use adcs to adjust the voltage up and down or zoom it in and out

Bard_the_BowmanOP•12/31/22, 8:49 PM

So I suppose if I could find pots that had just a slightly smaller angle stick might work better. Maybe i could even really overhaul it and use hall sensors

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:50 PM

Hall sensors are a pain in the but

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:50 PM

Idk about all of them but the ones I have a voltage drop

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:51 PM

And they are super noisy

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:51 PM

Maybe I have some shitty ones

Bard_the_BowmanOP•12/31/22, 8:52 PM

I do have some experience with them, I have a Cessna TPM quadrant that I’m producing that uses them and I’ve had good results. But those are fancy ones with internal adc and I’d have to use different ones for stick

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:53 PM

You can also use any encoder that gets read by an arduino and then converted to progamable resistor that the ffb board sees

BBard_the_Bowman I do have some experience with them, I have a Cessna TPM quadrant that I’m produ...

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:53 PM

Oh thats why

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:56 PM

These are the little shits I baught

SwiftVengeance•12/31/22, 8:58 PM

Just stick with your pots

Propeler3D•12/31/22, 9:12 PM

There are programable angle sensors with analog output. For example KMA210 is integrated and you do not need external components for it. or KMZ 60 but you need additional schematic for it to change angle range.

Propeler3D•12/31/22, 9:12 PM

I was using KMA210 for their easy reprogramming and integrated form.

Propeler3D•12/31/22, 9:18 PM

AS5600 is programable as well

YYe Old Grog I think your question got lost in the conversation above. Walmis mentions earlie...

VBF-12 Gosling•12/31/22, 9:43 PM

Yep - Stuff goes past pretty quick here…. Interesting that people seem to be building their own. I do not really want to do that although I have built stuff using Hall Effect Transistors (like above) before. Just would like to see what the cost of the kit is etc. There does not seem to be a website.

Ya same, it’s too bad they dropped it. What I like about Walmis project is it’s reallly the first a

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