Saitek X52 Pro Flight Joystick + Throttle at a discount. Interested?

[Sneakytiger]

Think ur looking at £125 for a x52 pro

[albert]

Buy a 2nd hand X45. Nearly as feature rich as the X5x options and probably £30 second hand. Plus none of the digital display stuff to worry about. Oh and it's bright blue!


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[ArithonUK]

Think ur looking at £125 for a x52 pro

Best price is CCL at £114.07 but naturally, they are out of stock at the moment. I'd be looking for a better price.

[Carr0t]

The issue as far as I can tell is Saitek's QC went a bit down the pan when they got bought by MadCatz. So if you get a good stick then you're winning but many people have had to send back several units before getting a good one.

The X55 has variable springs you can swap out for different resistance on the stick. The X52 doesn't. I've seen people do mods with plastic washers and such, but that has downsides elsewhere and i'm fine with it as-is. I actually prefer the X52 Pro for Elite. The base X52 looks plasticky because of the silver/blue colour scheme (as opposed to black/green), but the X52 looks 'sci-fi', whereas the X55 looks more 'real world'

The magnet mod is normally to *increase* the sensitivity of the stick/minimise the deadzone. Given that my X52 has no deadzone at all as far as I can tell and I had to add a very minor one in Elite's settings to make FAOff mode playable I am inclined to believe that this is another QC issue - you only need the mod if you've got a joystick that's not quite up to par, but good luck getting Saitek to admit it as an issue and give you a replacement.

The only mod I did do to my X52 was to take the throttle apart and remove the detents so that I have smooth travel from 0 all the way to 100% throttle, instead of having a resistive 'lock point' at 0, 50% and 100%. I can see why the detents would make sense for proper flight sims where you often stick at mid throttle, or only want to lock right at 100% for takeoff/afterburner or whatever to not burn tons of fuel, or if you have Elite set up where 50% is 0 throttle, 51-100% is forwards and 49-0% is backwards, but for the way I play (0-100% for throttle and a button to switch between forward and reverse) and given I only use it for Elite and SC when that gets released it makes more sense to remove them.

[albert]

Hi Carr0t, I'd be interested in knowing how you made the throttle only got forwards or only reverse. I use 0-49 back 50 stop and 51-100 forward today with a button for 50% forward and another for stop. It's a compromise setup as I only ever go into reverse when I'm about to hit another object after getting too cocky.

There's one in battle manoeuvre that uses reverse and I have that worked out using my current setup bit again I can see the ease of speed control proving with what you do.
Cheers,
Bert


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[Arcon]

Its the controls section, under throttle there's a drop down called throttle axis range and you can choose forwards only

[ArithonUK]

Okay gents, here's the offer:

X52 - 89.95
 
X52 Pro â€" 113.95
 
X55 Rhino â€" 149.99
 
All prices include VAT and delivery via UPS.  

If you are still interested, post here and once I have the numbers, I will email you a URL and Promo code.

[TeaLeaf]

Very tempted to get the X55, even thought he discount is not huge it's still £20 better than retail.    Just need to decide whether or not to wait for something SC-flavoured.

[DrunkenZombiee]

The X55 can be had for £129.99 in some places so I think it may be worth the upgrade.

DZ

[ArithonUK]

I have been sent the promo codes, so if you want to order, PM me your email and I will forward the details. Codes are valid until end of October...

[TeaLeaf]

The X55 can be had for £129.99 in some places so I think it may be worth the upgrade.

DZ

£129.99? Is that including VAT & delivery?  Link please!

[DrunkenZombiee]

99 Pence extra for delivery...

Now out of stock... I ordered one along with the new K95 (with the tramp stamp) a day ago but order still says processing so I am hoping they will deliver mine and haven't pulled a fast one by taking the order without stock.

x52 is very cheap too and in stock at £114.99.

DZ

[TeaLeaf]

Stunningly good price, wish I had seen it and managed to order one too!

[Sneakytiger]

yeah got mine from dabs.com

[Lameduck]

Registered on my wish list at dabs. Really good value.