That Brighton reference was so niche and so well played. Kudos.
Oh great bot too
Welcome to the cursed GT5 club. I went through exactly the same process on mine. I really struggled to react quick enough with the location/action of the stock buttons and switches, and after some really frustrating events I started messing with it. Many attempts and many vestigial holes (ventilation for my sweaty palms) later I settled on a single microswitch under my thumb. Googly eye for grip, blue roll and superglue hinge because the lever fell off during my first fight at the last ORCS and it’s the only way I know how to fix things in a hurry. Finally feels natural and for the first time I can actually actuate a weapon when I want to, not when my finger or thumb eventually finds the tiny stock button.
I also hot glued an M3 nut to the middle finger button, I use that for weapon on/off on the vert, with weapon speed on CH6. The microswitch is the “full send” button.
They are not well built transmitters and after a couple of years of regular events mine is just barely hanging to life by a thread. The wheel pot died, so I grafted on the monstrosity pictured (looks hideous but feels great though! ) because I couldn’t find a drop in replacement pot (and was unemployed enough for three days designing a self-centering wheel assembly that felt right to be an appealing choice). Bits have fallen off. It’s too top heavy with just a 600mah lipo in the bottom and falls over sometimes. I had some 18650s in there but they died for some reason and the juice came out of one of them.
I did make a new trigger assembly though, with a more progressive spring ramp in the forwards direction and (I think, it’s been a while) I tweaked the mid point so that you get more trigger travel in the forwards direction, it’s now about 75% of the total range of motion. Also a hoop trigger rather than the weird triangle one it comes with and which my sausage fingers kept slipping out of. If you want the CAD let me know, it’s a drop in replacement (same spring even) and I do think it’s a big improvement over the feel of the stock trigger!
It’s had a good run but I’ll be putting on the shelf soon in favour of a Radiomaster MT12. Ari got one recently and I got to have a play with it, it’s a much better built transmitter and also means I can go ELRS for the teeny weeny surface mount receiver modules with integrated antennae.
Still gonna bodge weapon switches on, though.