Yoke by DIAGMA simulator hardware

[Wmacky 0]

On 7/24/2019 at 1:21 PM, MarkDH said:

I'm not sure where 'shouldn't' comes from but I expect you're saying you don't understand why it's hard to build and mass-produce something good that you can sell at that price for a reasonable profit. I guess many before you have thought so and failed, most likely because 'a pole mounted on a rail with bungee cords and couple of sensors' doesn't capture all the engineering challenges that will only become evident when you try. Nicky Repenning said something illuminating in a recent video promoting the Honeycomb yoke, which was that he wanted to cater for the full range of users: from flight-simmers, who hold the yoke with both hands, to student pilots, who hold it with three fingers. That's a major engineering challenge right there.

He had original referred to what I had said which was that I would NOT pay $1000 + for a non feedback yoke.  They could engineer it all they wanted, but IMO that's bad value for the dollar. For me the Diagma yoke did hit the mark at this price point as rough around the edges as it may be.  Nicky's plastic yoke was never under my consideration as that equipment looks like up level Saitek  product to me, and in a different class than the others under discussion. Not Interested. Again just my opinion..

[MarkDH 234]

2 hours ago, Wmacky said:

He had original referred to what I had said which was that I would NOT pay $1000 + for a non feedback yoke.  They could engineer it all they wanted, but IMO that's bad value for the dollar. For me the Diagma yoke did hit the mark at this price point as rough around the edges as it may be.  Nicky's plastic yoke was never under my consideration as that equipment looks like up level Saitek  product to me, and in a different class than the others under discussion. Not Interested. Again just my opinion..

I'm not sure how this relates to anything I said 😐

[CrazierChief 1]

On 4/9/2019 at 9:11 PM, chrispix said:

Got my new build of the alpha yesterday. Had to leave early this morning on biz trip.. But.. got the legs and alpha assembled 

will upload videos tonight  (if you check my channel you can see all the clips i uploaded)

Where can i find your Channel?

[CrazierChief 1]

They dont answer emails, for me that Means that  they are gone.

[n19htmare 22]

On 8/24/2019 at 4:59 PM, CrazierChief said:

They dont answer emails, for me that Means that  they are gone.

 

Well it looks like I might have been one of the last orders filled. I'm both happy and sad. Happy that I got a chance to buy one of these before they went on hiatus and sad that they've disappeared.

I'm not even mad that I likely lost support on this yoke because as I've said in prior posts, everything on this beast of a stick is off the shelf parts. Nothing I can't buy and toss in here to replace. Bearings,  Conductive Plastic Potentiometers, guide rail, Leo Bodnar controller, switches all easily replaceable.  Only thing I didn't have is the tooling to make the case/base/handle but the way this is built, the rest of stuff should last a lifetime.  

Bummer they're MIA because for the $475 shipped that I paid for this, I feel I've already gotten my money's worth with how much I've enjoyed this yoke in FSX and X-Plane.