[PSUBS-MAILIST] Motor Controller Tractor Beam

[Alan via Personal_Submersibles]

Jon,
Just found your original post along with 5 other Psub posts in junk mail!
I have been doing similar with my Vesc controllers & joysticks. 
I have a relatively small 3 axis joystick with switch.
I don't think the sensitivity will be too much of an issue once it's pushing a 
submarine, as there will be a considerable amount of propeller slip softening
the motion.
I have my inflatable set up with joystick control, testing my thruster & various
motor controllers. 
My intension is to build a custom flight control type joystick with a thumb slide
oriented vertically to be intuitive for the vertical thruster control.
Alan

> On 19/07/2019, at 12:46 AM, Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
> 
> No, the joystick I have would qualify as a "mini" or even a thumb-stick so no switch.  There's another one that has a larger body (25mm or so) and does have a button on the top.
> 
> On Thursday, July 18, 2019, 08:01:49 AM EDT, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Jon. Is you joy stick with potentiometer also a on, off switch?
> Hank
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Jul 17, 2019, at 8:06 PM, Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Sort of.  Connected my motor controllers to a couple of 12v motors just to test the configuration.  The tractor control with one 2-axis joystick is fantastic and exactly what I'm looking for.  It's a little more sensitive than I care for, I think due to having 10k ohm potentiometers on the joystick.  The controller documentation recommends 1-5k ohm potentiometers but I hadn't read that far when I ordered the 10k model.  So I'll probably pick up the same joystick with 5k ohm pots and see if it feels better.
>> 
>> The software interface to the controller is great, giving me control over many parameters that affect the performance of the motors including safety shut-downs and limiting current, rpms, and even how fast it revs up to max rpms.
>> 
>> Jon
>> 
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