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2023-08-14 3:43 pm
Hello all I hope this message reaches you being well. I am not very smart or sophisticated in electronics but I try! I have a Xbox racing wheel and foot pedals I have taken it apart and put the guts to my flysky i6x radio into the racing wheel.
The foot pedals each have one potentiometer connected together I cannot figure out how to connect these two pots to a single potentiometer from the flysky radio gimbal. There are two YouTube videos that are diy to make Rc car steering wheel and gas brake pedals but I've tried following along but my car responds in not the expected manner. So how in the heck do I wire two potentiometers together to turn be controlled via one of my radio outputs. Ive seen it done a few times!
I also have a multitude of 3 position switches at my disposal many extra compared to the stock flysky i6x. So is there anyway to say, wire two switches into one output and have 5-6 steps for that output. I hope this makes sense I am very determined to get the project sorted I have no problem paying for information and help. This is a fpv rc car.
Scottsrcshop
2023-08-14 4:15 pm
Hello all I hope this message reaches you being well. I am not very smart or sophisticated in electronics but I try! I have a Xbox racing wheel and foot pedals I have taken it apart and put the guts to my flysky i6x radio into the racing wheel.
The foot pedals each have one potentiometer connected together I cannot figure out how to connect these two pots to a single potentiometer from the flysky radio gimbal. There are two YouTube videos that are diy to make Rc car steering wheel and gas brake pedals but I've tried following along but my car responds in not the expected manner. So how in the heck do I wire two potentiometers together to turn be controlled via one of my radio outputs. Ive seen it done a few times!
I also have a multitude of 3 position switches at my disposal many extra compared to the stock flysky i6x. So is there anyway to say, wire two switches into one output and have 5-6 steps for that output. I hope this makes sense I am very determined to get the project sorted I have no problem paying for information and help. This is a fpv rc car.
Scottsrcshop
I hope you documented the existing wiring with lots of pictures first. It would also be of great help if you could get the wiring diagram from the manufacturer. Then when we can see all that, maybe someone can help. I don't see a way forward with the information you have given, but maybe someone else can. You probably already know, but if you make a mistake, you could destroy the device so be very sure of what you are doing.
Good luck!
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2023-08-14 5:54 pm
@rcdash24
I find your descriptions very hard to follow.
I'm guessing that you didn't trace out the wiring connections between the xbox components before you tried to Frankenstein them into a FlySky configuration. If you do have some detailed plans of what you intended to do with the parts, please post it so we can follow what you're doing and maybe suggest corrections or improvements.
If you don't have any wiring diagrams from before you started to your current configuration, then it will be extremely hard for us to guess what you're doing (wrong).
Exactly what kind of "3 position switches" are you talking about ? 1P3T, on-off-on ? Switches are not generally additive because the output from 1 is the input to the next. So, something like a 1P3T could be connected in a cascade with 3 other similar switches to provide a potential of 9 different targets for a single input. You need to specify more detail about what you have and what you want to do with it.
Anything seems possible when you don't know what you're talking about.