[PSUBS-MAILIST] Joystick

[Alan via Personal_Submersibles]

Should mention that the buttons or whatever for the vertical
thrusters will have to be analogue to give me speed control,
& not on & off. 
Cheers Alan

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> On 27/02/2018, at 10:36 AM, Alan via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
> 
> Am looking for a semi industrial or industrial joystick for controlling
> 4 thrusters; two vertical, two horizontal. 
> I want to operate it with one hand. The X axis will be the horizontal thrusters
> throttle forward & reverse, the Y axis is the horizontal thrusters proportional
> speed for turning ( pretty standard ). The vertical thruster control is what I
> am having trouble with; I want it to be as intuitive as possible & have seen
> buttons on joystick shafts that could be used for up & down. In the attached
> picture the buttons are on the top of the shaft in the left hand example.
> I am also wanting the unit pretty small, so small intuitive, one handed operation.
> It doesn't matter if there is a few extra buttons as I could use these for lights
> or display control etc.
> If anyone knows of anything, or has a better solution, I would be interested
> thanks. Oh yeah, & not really expensive!
> Alan
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