Marconi F3049-02 : Joystick Controller

You win. I bought mine. Horrible things. **LINK**. The tiny joysticks were probably fine buit into a desk. As this is (usually) a mechanical engineering forum, I don't need to detail why the handheld style was horrible to use.

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Too far for me to travel ... but I have eMailed this morning.

MichaelG.

Its a log time ago, but I worked at Marconi Specalsed Components in Billericay, sat next to the guy that made these.

If I remember, they had two 'pots; / variable resistors in them, one for X one for Y, I thought they also had a button on top,

They were designed at the time that nuclear bombs were though survivable, Very rugged, designed to be used by Milterary personel "under conditions stress", when excess force might be applied. ...

A quick go with a ohm meter should get you which pins are which.

Thanks for the note, Andrew ... and welcome aboard the forum.

My understanding is [was] that mine is a 'contactless' version that uses something more exotic than simple pots, but I may be wrong ... I have so far resisted the temptation to open it up.

MichaelG.

Did you ever get to try out a DVM on this ?

I was cleaning out the attic last month

came across a few of the encoder wheels from the tracker ball

made me remember this post,

‘fraid not, Andrew … to my shame, it’s been tucked away in a cupboard since then.

We have massive reorganisation in progress at the moment, so I won’t even be able to take your hint

In a few months time, I may introduce it to the oscilloscope

MichaelG.