Joystick calibration in FSUIPC

[heartbreak61]

Hi, I have uneven region where I can't feel any "resistance" when trying to move my joystick. Lets call that empty area.

My X and Y axis ranged from around -16300 to 16300. My X axis have bigger empty area to the left (around 2000 range) than to the right (around 500). Same goes with Y axis, 2000 to down and 500 to up.

Is there any way I could tell PSUIPC not to do anything on that area? Right now, I just adjust the curve so I believe it have exponential curve on the output. So far so good, but I think that it can be improved if I that empty area is ignored at all.

Thanks.

PS: sorry for my poor English

[Pete Dowson]

Is there any way I could tell PSUIPC not to do anything on that area?

 

You post seems to say two different things:

 

First, if you have areas on your levers where the INput values do not change, then (obviously?) FSUIPC can't do anything with them.

 

Second, if you really mean you want to eliminate parts of your joystick axis range, then you can easily do at both lower and upper ends, and of course in the centre (where there is a centre -- as in Aileron, Elevator and Rudder cases), by simply calibrating after moving the levers to the positions involved.

 

Please do refer to the Calibration chapter in the User Guide, where you will find numbered steps to proper calibration.

 

It it important NOT to mess with "slopes" till you have calibrated properly.

 

Pete

[heartbreak61]

Sorry if my post is confusing.

It's not that area is undetected. It's just... too loose so sometimes its move by itself (only limited to that small area around the middle) and affect my plane.

I've read the guide but I think I can't understand how to properly eliminate area in the middle, not in the top or bottom.

And I believe my joystick has been calibrated properly, in linear fashion. That's why I use exponential curve so everytime my yoke move by itself, or I accidentally touch it, it doesn't have big effect on the plane.

Thank you

[Pete Dowson]

Sorry if my post is confusing.

It's not that area is undetected. It's just... too loose so sometimes its move by itself (only limited to that small area around the middle) and affect my plane.

 

If you are assigning that axis to a surface control with a "middle" (centre), such as Aileron, Elevator or, Rudder, then you just define the zone around that area to be unused (all values set centre). Look at the calibration sections in the FSUIPC options screen. See values you can set for "Minimum", and "Maximum", and TWO Centre values. They delineate the area you want all to be centre.

 

The numbered step-by-step guide in the User Guide does cover this quite clearly 

 

I've read the guide but I think I can't understand how to properly eliminate area in the middle, not in the top or bottom.

 

You must have missed a whole chapter, then? The process is the same. For any control which has a centre, there are 4 values to calibrate, not just the 2 you seem to have understood! You just set them in order, left to right.

 

If your faulty axis is not being assigned to a control with a centre, you are stuck -- such control surfaces need a continuous change as you move the lever. I suggest you try to get the joystick repaired -- but try cleaning first. I always found electrical switch cleaner very effective on pots.

 

Pete

[heartbreak61]

You must have missed a whole chapter, then? The process is the same. For any control which has a centre, there are 4 values to calibrate, not just the 2 you seem to have understood! You just set them in order, left to right.

Lol, I just set three values instead of 4. I thiught the center-bottom box belongs to the curve (which is sometimes I wonder why I can't see the changes I've made on the slope).

Yeah, there's something about that on number 6 of your Step-by-Step list but somehow I failed to understand that before due to my poor understanding of English.

Anyway, thank you very much for your time!