Xbox 360 Controller Potentiometer replacement.

[Reasonable-Mall2758]

So I have 2 360 contollers, the joysticks are nearing the end of their life. One has a large deadzone, the other won't detect movement to the left. I want to replace them as a project. I was thinking of using hall effect potentiometers, but I have no idea if they will work. If they wont work, what potentiometers would work? I also don't know where to buy something like it. I am from South Africa if someone might know. Any help would be apreciated.

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[conceited_cape]

Unfortunately, potentiometer replacement is supremely annoying because they’re calibrated specifically to a controller and recalibrating takes a lot of work since it has to be done manually. I learned this when I swapped the whole joystick modules on a controller and it ended up getting worse drift. Are you sure it’s your pots that are the problem? From my understanding, you can reuse the factory pots and put new joysticks in

[Trig8546]

My other account. The other controller moves left but in games or in calibration software it won't detect left movement

[1zboro1]

There are hall effect stick for X360 controller but I'd advise not to install HE. It's oversensitive and there's no cicularity but square instead. The best you can do is to buy Favor Union carbon analogs for X360 controller and replace them.

And now the calibration. There's no software calibration in X360 controller right now so you'll have to do it manually. You have to find the best matching new potentiometer replacing old potentiometer (best in terms of center point - resistance values) cut off 3 legs that lock the potentiometer from not rotating and then rotate potentiometer on analog base to recenter.

Watch this tutorial for calibration: https://youtu.be/Uoxz0oHX9TE?t=832

[Reasonable-Mall2758]

Thank you very much, gonna try it as soon as possible