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

anyone got recommendations?

(LCD version)

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[–] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    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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