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[Targun Yssboern]

1. 5 years -give or take a few weeks
2. some driver problems which I was able to work around by having the windows calibration tool open, and last year the primary trigger stopped working reliably - which is a bit of an inconvenience. creative firegroups keep me afloat until I can afford a replacement.
3. Yes, and there was MadCatz in between
4. similar, luckily my hotas held up quite a while.

Try magnet-mod, may help with the drift

Fixing trigger shouldn't be impossible too, they use standard limit-switches, something like this:

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Just open the joystick, fiddle with the switch a bit, check its cables - maybe that will help. If not just measure it and buy similar.

 

[Craith]

Thanks for the tip, I am a bit scared that I mess my hotas for good - currently a replacement is not in the budget.

 

[Targun Yssboern]

Magnet-mod only requires removing bottom cover and sticking additional magnets to the already installed ones - it sticks with its magnetic force, no need to mount it in any special way.
That's absolutely safe if you do it sober.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JGZSx7UaVU


You will need 4 magnets like this: (they cost $2 for 10)

US $1.92 |10/20/50/200Pcs 12x3 Neodymium Magnet 12mm x 3mm N42 NdFeB Round Super Powerful Strong Permanent Magnetic imanes Disc 12x3|Magnetic Materials| - AliExpress

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[Crazy Joe]

That is a web address. Logitech left it running and sevices the site.
You also mention that you use the Logitech software. It is an updated version Logitech put out to fix the problems that you mention

X55 owner here. I wish Logitech would sent some love our way, as that stick is still on beta W10 drivers.