Received the joystick today it is the thrustmaster T-Flight Hotas X Flight.
![DSC03768.JPG (3.05 MiB) Viewed 14291 times see the 3 button on the throttle stick base](./download/file.php?id=12086&t=1&sid=417695491eab115e1433c7e14a7168cd)
- see the 3 button on the throttle stick base
![DSC03767.JPG (3.09 MiB) Viewed 14291 times see the horizontal rocker lever on front side of the throttle handle](./download/file.php?id=12087&t=1&sid=417695491eab115e1433c7e14a7168cd)
- see the horizontal rocker lever on front side of the throttle handle
plugged in the USB cord, PC recognized it, installed the driver. Well, that is about how long it stayed intact before spelling its guts out.
opened up the throttle part to check on the pot 1st. Surely enough it has a 70 degree pot for throttle. Can't tell the resistance.
there is a 2nd pot in the throttle handle for the rocker lever which can be used as rudder control. I assume it has the same kind of pot. you can see the circuit board where the two pots one leads to the 3 points at top left and one at left vertically.
I made some measurement of the resistance see if you can help me figure out what the resistance is.
A B C: A-C:constant 29.2K ohm A-B: 7.9K B-C:33.2K when throttle at one end, and A-B:34.2K B-C: 8.7K when throttle is at the other end.
do you think this pot can be used with AR9X/ersky9x?
If this can be used directly to the AR9X board, this would be a fairly simple thing to route the wire to the AR9X board.
![DSC03770.JPG (3.22 MiB) Viewed 14291 times after removing the bottom of throttle base](./download/file.php?id=12088&t=1&sid=417695491eab115e1433c7e14a7168cd)
- after removing the bottom of throttle base
![DSC03771.JPG (2.55 MiB) Viewed 14291 times here is the pot showing 70 degree and some other numbers](./download/file.php?id=12089&t=1&sid=417695491eab115e1433c7e14a7168cd)
- here is the pot showing 70 degree and some other numbers
![DSC03772.JPG (2.85 MiB) Viewed 14291 times here is the circuit board where the pots and buttons wires goes to](./download/file.php?id=12090&t=1&sid=417695491eab115e1433c7e14a7168cd)
- here is the circuit board where the pots and buttons wires goes to
![DSC03775.JPG (3.01 MiB) Viewed 14291 times the circuit board](./download/file.php?id=12091&t=1&sid=417695491eab115e1433c7e14a7168cd)
- the circuit board
On the circuit board there are 4 circles with fine meshed tracks in there, those are the three push button switch contact on the throttle you can see in the pic above.
the actual button inside is like this:
it is white rubber cup with a black flat object in it, can't tell what material the black thing is made of. I wonder those fine tracks are pressure sensor or the black flat object is some conductive material when the button is pushed the black round thing making contact with those meshed tracks and short the circuit?
I will tear apart the joystick tomorrow to check what is in that.