Stand-alone Joystick Tester.

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Bryce

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Hi all,
I've moved this to a sales thread, now that I have got as far as building the devices. Unfortunately my supplier for the 9pin sub-d connectors messed up and sent me female instead of male connectors, but I had a spare connector so that I could at least build one. So here's what the finished product looks like. The small chip is a regulator so that autofire can also be tested. It has a yellow LED to remind you that you've left the battery connected, two red LEDs for fire 1/2/autofire and four green LEDs for the directions. I can do custom colours for those who have colour fetishes, but that will cost extra
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I'll build the rest later and finish them when the correct connectors have arrived. From the battery/connector you can see approximately how big (small) it is. They are not all sold yet, so if you are still interested, then let me know. They will cost €19 each plus postage/paypal.


Bryce.

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PM Replied, payment sent for 1 x Joystick Tester, will report back when received!

Thanks again Bryce.

mogouk
 
Hi Bryce,

could you put me down for one of these, it will save a lot of messing around to find out what joystick works and what needs sorting out.

I will send a PM in a moment.
 
Wow, that's definitely a job for a stand-alone Joystick tester!

Parcels will go out tomorrow.

Bryce.
 
Hi Bryce,

my tester has arrived today safe and sound and I am totally impressed with the soldering and quality of the product :)

When I solder surface mount devices I tend to be a bit heavy handed with the solder, I do have a new iron now that is not as heavy so maybe that will help on smaller components in the future ;)

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Hi Bryce, also received mine today, been testing all day it's saved me a good few hours Quality Product, Quality Workmanship, thanks again Bryce (y) Feedback left!
 
Thanks for the great feedback guys. @Allen1: The SMD parts are reflow soldered in a homebuilt reflow oven. My handsoldering wouldn't look that neat either :)

Bryce.
 
Hi Bryce, you must be very proud of the reflow oven you made, getting the right temperature, distance from heater and time for the solder to melt and flow properly, I know that all that is hard to get right and would be a labour of love but well worth it from the results :).
 
You make it sound much cooler than it is. In reality: A small "Pizza oven" with a PWM controller on the main heater. Temperature and distance are done by having a thermocouple fixed to a dummy PCB on the tray and the dwelling/soaking/soldering curve is controlled by a simple PIC micro-controller - read the temperature and adjust the PWM as required. The temperature curves can be found online.

Bryce.
 
Bump because I just realised I still have a bunch of these...

Bryce.
 
I still have a few of these for sale if anyone is interested.

Bryce.
 
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