Can I send my X-55 repair bill to Fdev?

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Darth Ender said:
It's almost like they had no idea that switching to lithium polymer batteries for crazier form factors was brand new to them and they had no idea that the batteries _WILL_ always puff out over time (sometimes not much time).

Pretty much anyone in the RC model world could have told them that years before they started putting these guys in hard plastic cases with no internal empty space. Storing lithium polymer batteries fully charged for longer than a week is going to puff them over time. Discharging at high temp too. Fun stuff.
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They're actually just R&D'ing to make it safer, not to avoid it lol!

Truth be spoken, it was easier for the company we collaborated with to produce new phones and send them through warranty than to re-evaluate their battery manufacturer choices.

This is becoming common practice. Items that fail once, two, three times over the warranty period. Depending on country legislation (often VERY lenient) they'll just send back a reworked unit that's been sent back locally to avoid shipping costs of new parts from China.

The fact the battery gets swollen is a safety measure. The gasses are contained.
 

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Asp Explorer said:
Oh you should see some of the 1U UPS junk - some of them literally split the welds off racks, and lead to some very interesting situations. You just can't fix cheap customers though.
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Can't really blame the cheap customer imho... He doesn't know better. Doesn't see beyond the craft-paper surrounding his item.
When you produce something on the other hand you have a choice.

Its more about how *brown your head-department is.
 

Asp Explorer

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Can't really blame the cheap customer imho... He doesn't know better. Doesn't see beyond the craft-paper surrounding his item.
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Oh cheap customer learns allright - when you turn up onsite and refuse to perform platform work until a electrical inspection has been carried out :D
 

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Can I just leave this here?

My Pip-switch broke because I have no way to CHECK if a material laying down in front of me is within my inventory at X amount.
By constantly having to press my PIP-switch to navigate through (ONLY UP & DOWN) the material list. Checking if its even interesting in the first place, because I have no way to pin my favorite blue printS.

These switches are made to last at-least 60.000 presses. The AFTER-Market that one is.
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If you're honestly after a way of saving the buttons on your joystick then I recommend putting together your own button pad - quite a few cmdrs have built really good controls that look excellent and fit in with the e : d aesthetic.
I made mine as cheap as possible and as a bit of fun but it's so handy it's in constant use. Menu up, down left right is controlled by a sanwa joystick with the buttons being cheapo maplins however I've used the sanwa buttons elsewhere for other controls and they're excellent - designed for 80's kids to give them a thrashing in an arcade so significantly more durable that current joysticks.
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(I'm left handed and play keyboard only so its a specialist layout just for me)
It's all controlled by a usb encoder so really basic but functional.

If you're more upset about the slickness of the controls then I gracefully disagree! I really like the way they work, it reminds me of driving my old land rover 101 but in space - Saitek need to make something with big bakerlite buttons to twiddle. :D
 
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you're honestly after a way of saving the buttons on your joystick then I recommend putting together your own button pad - quite a few cmdrs have built really good controls that look excellent and fit in with the e : d aesthetic.
I made mine as cheap as possible and as a bit of fun but it's so handy it's in constant use. Menu up, down left right is controlled by a sanwa joystick with the buttons being cheapo maplins however I've used the sanwa buttons elsewhere for other controls and they're excellent - designed for 80's kids to give them a thrashing in an arcade so significantly more durable that current joysticks.
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(I'm left handed and play keyboard only so its a specialist layout just for me)
It's all controlled by a usb encoder so really basic but functional.

If you're more upset about the slickness of the controls then I gracefully disagree! I really like the way they work, it reminds me of driving my old land rover 101 but in space - Saitek need to make something with big bakerlite buttons to twiddle. :D
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Looks functional to say the least!!!

Gives a new meaning to "punching it" when engaging the FSD lol ^^

Concerning Saitek,

The ergonomic design for both the x55 and x56 are made and tested in Area x51. True fact. You need abnormally large hands for all buttons to be "use-able" in an unnatural discomforting posture.
Other than that, it has a lot of buttons and dual throttle indeed.
 

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Arvel Yael said:
Saitek are now owned by and in the process of being folded into Logitech.
Their current iteration may be better than you think.
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Still waiting for a clean product that doesn't have its production line smudged by shortcuts.
I'm dearly waiting for that iteration :)
 

Asp Explorer

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Still waiting for a clean product that doesn't have its production line smudged by shortcuts.
I'm dearly waiting for that iteration :)
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The X52 Pro's are certainly interesting.

I have three of them, and I can't really complain about build or component quality, at least with the specimens I have. Having said that, some people report completely awful problems with them - popped LED's, split wires, dead MFD's and ports falling out.
 

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Asp Explorer said:
The X52 Pro's are certainly interesting.

I have three of them, and I can't really complain about build or component quality, at least with the specimens I have. Having said that, some people report completely awful problems with them - popped LED's, split wires, dead MFD's and ports falling out.
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Dual throttle really was a factor for me when deciding. I spent a lot of time digging before I threw a moderate amount of pennies lol :)
If anything my eyes are turning towards some of the newer "manufacturers"/freelancers (relative terms). They seem to actually use their sticks!
They do come at a nifty price-tag but I feel the X55 will still have been a good stepping stone.

Might keep the throttle if it lives.
 

Crank Larson

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:D

You know those scenes in movies, where there is some ancient electrical tech with sparks and plasma domes?

I've had customers say "Please, at least bring the Exchange server back up?"

The answer is always "Nope!"
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lol, you know they're cheap when their Exchange server goes down - because it means they didn't build in resilience. :D

I've just realised, mine's an X55. I also need to take it apart sometime soon to fix the down hat. Had to take it apart originally to grease it properly too, as it squeaked and was awful to use.
 
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Damn... You quoted me before I fixed my typo. Now I'm permanently embarrassed! :D
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No need to be - that's absolutely nothing :D

The enterprise who spent millions on rewiring their infrastructure to deliver gigabit to the desktop, only to insist on putting a Cisco 7960 in between - might blush a bit :D
 

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Asp Explorer said:
No need to be - that's absolutely nothing :D

The enterprise who spent millions on rewiring their infrastructure to deliver gigabit to the desktop, only to insist on putting a Cisco 7960 in between - might blush a bit :D
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Mind blown.

If I had been faced with the installing I can't decide if I'd go with it or tell them...

Probably tell them and go with it lol!

CTO called in sick right?
 
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