My left stick started to drift, and I might as well get hall effect sticks as replacement

anyone got recommendations?

(LCD version)

  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzM
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    1 month ago

    A lot of stick drift is actually caused by debris or sticky residue in the thumbstick housing, I’ve fixed stick drift on a lot my personal controllers just by spraying some plastic-safe electric cleaner spray in around the drifting stick.

    That said, I did replace the sticks on my OLED deck because the capacitive pad came off. I used a set of Gulikit Hall Effect sticks, and they’ve worked pretty well.

    I have heard that some of their older stick designs had issues like square dead zones, not sure if that’s still an issue. I know they improved their LCD stick designs so that you no longer have to solder anything or buy different products depending on if you have type A or type B sticks.

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      1 month ago

      I’ve fixed stick drift on a lot my personal controllers just by spraying some plastic-safe electric cleaner spray in around the drifting stick.

      well, turns out, it was even easier. a single NES-cartridge-sty blow into the stick-well removed whatever piece of dust was in the sensor

      so, if anyone else comes across this at some point: a puff of compressed air might be enough (blowing into it not recommended)

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        1 month ago

        Fantastic, I’m happy that worked for you.

        I do wonder how many good controllers get thrown away over drift from stuff like this.