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xbox elite controller mod
« on: January 20, 2016, 05:28:39 AM »
I am looking at doing a elite mod. I need to see the inside of the bottom shell. I would like to determine how the magnetic paddles are mounted and how they input a signal to the controller. 

Anyone seen any pictures laying around the net. I found a disassemble video which looks just like a standard controller, but the asshat does not show the inside of the bottom shell. Like duh... everything else is the same, why would you not show that.
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Re: xbox elite controller mod
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2016, 10:07:44 AM »
I'll be getting one of those in another day or two here to do some work on, can get pics for you then if no one else has posted by then.
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Re: xbox elite controller mod
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2016, 03:51:36 PM »
The Paddles appear to be Common Ground. They are using a 6 connection Flex cable to connect the Paddle board to the main board, so 4 are the buttons, 1 is ground and the last one I haven't determined yet and most likely will not on this controller. There is also a ground connection made from the MCU board to the Paddle board with a compression connector.

On the Power board, they are using the IR LED connection for the 1/2 switch line. This one also has no IR LEDs and seems to be mostly a 1697 with some changes for the Paddle board and the other shell changes. Sadly it's really just a matter of the slight mechanical difference for limiting the Triggers and some code for the rest of it that differentiates between the stock $60 controller an this $150 (ripoff) one.

Not a lot more I can do with this one as it has to go back to it's owner, and I don't want to go tearing into it like I normally would, but they did some changes in here on both boards. I'll get one later on so I can do a proper tear down and thread for it (maybe when that hot place get s a bit cooler, or if someone that cares not for money sends me one) but until then here are a few pics. If you need to see something else let me know while I have it here the next few days and I'll see what I can do.






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Re: xbox elite controller mod
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2016, 05:08:46 AM »
Do you think the original MOBO will lay in the shell over the paddle assembly?

I can probably port the chip I am using over, but I am worried any software changes may affect the way the Viking chip operates.

What is up with the Mic port? Is that a 3.5mm jack? The shell appears to have the slot for the xbox mic port also??
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Re: xbox elite controller mod
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2016, 06:56:55 AM »
If you try to put the 1537 into this thing, the MCU will hit the Paddle board, and you'd have a gaping hole where the 3.5mm would be.

If you try to put a 1697 into this thing, which also has the 3.5mm port, the shielding of the RF board will hit the Paddle board.

Just from the looks, I can't imagine they changed the core of how it works, but I'd need one that I could tear more into to know for certain. The buttons are all still in a CG layout, and the Triggers are still Halls. I'd have to scope them to see if they changed anything there, but for all intensive purposes it's the same as a 1697. What I mainly meant by this one having different code is for the 4 Paddles and then the 1/2 selection switch. The 1697 is capable of being this 1698, but I doubt it has the connections broken out even if you could update the MCU on it.

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Re: xbox elite controller mod
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2016, 05:26:35 AM »
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