Quote Originally Posted by HenrikOlsson View Post
Sorry for the delay but the thread is a decade old so....
What's the value of the pot in question? Link to actual product or datasheet?

It certainly sounds like a hardware issue. If it works OK with a rorary pot, of the same value, then the slide pot is crap - obviously.

But, do you really NEED 10 bit resolution? Even if you throw away say 3 bits you still have 127 discrete values. On a 70mm long pot that's about 0.5mm movement. If the sim software expects 10bits then just shift the value left three digits.
No rush here Henrik.

It's a linear 10K slide, my rotaries are 5K, but that shouldn't matter. If anything, the slides should be even more smooth since they have more distance to produce a variation in resistance.

I have 3 uses for these:

- flaps, 45mm with 4 detents (created with 3D printed housing since it cost a gazillion to add in pot).
- mixture, 60mm, doesn't require that much precision.
- throttle, 100mm, this is the important one since players can tweak their throttle in very small increments when landing.

6 bits would give me 64 values, like I said, I could make due with that if I have to.

This isn't old stock. I had to wait a month for manufacturing. Then they had quality control issues (housing pins not completely bent horizontally so the pot wobbled on PCB). They redid the order, but still, was not impressed.

The pots passed static tests, but now I'm starting to code and the first thing I tackled was pot debounce since that was left "unanswered" when I was testing stand-alone switch debouncing.

I'm just disappointed in the low quality straight from the manufacturer.