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Post by ScottB on Nov 7, 2017 13:41:37 GMT
Mark
If I were to build another cockpit, I'd change a lot of things. One of them would be my radio panel. I would go with a Saitek Radio and I watched your associated videos again. I looked into MotiveMods as well. Seems a shame to waste the expensive knobs I've already purchased so I was wondering if you thought I could substitute the Saitek knobs with my current radio knobs without replacing a circuit board or something more complicated? It would be worth voiding warranties, if it were just some simple soldering, even though the newer Saitek radio knobs work better. Maybe I'll contact MotiveMods as well.
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Post by MarkH on Nov 7, 2017 18:01:09 GMT
Mark
If I were to build another cockpit, I'd change a lot of things. One of them would be my radio panel. I would go with a Saitek Radio and I watched your associated videos again. I looked into MotiveMods as well. Seems a shame to waste the expensive knobs I've already purchased so I was wondering if you thought I could substitute the Saitek knobs with my current radio knobs without replacing a circuit board or something more complicated? It would be worth voiding warranties, if it were just some simple soldering, even though the newer Saitek radio knobs work better. Maybe I'll contact MotiveMods as well. Sorry, I have no real idea about this. But I suspect that if it could be done, then that's what the MotiveMods guy would have done! Look at it this way, if you do the radio with MotiveMods you'll have rotaries left over to make something else!
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Post by ScottB on Nov 10, 2017 21:21:45 GMT
You're right. I contacted MotiveMods and he explained that the default Saitek Radio Panel knobs are not dual concentric incremental encoders at all but instead one plastic shaft sleeved inside another, and uses plastic gears to drive an internal rotary in some manner (my vague interpretation). To install my encoders would require a circuit board, more than simply soldering in replacement encoders.
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