I know there have been some threads on here about painting the VCI-100, and I’m going to use a few of them to finally paint mine once I get the firmware upgrade on it (three weeks without a gig means I’m going to get a little productive).
I know I need conductive paint for the jog wheels so it can still pick up the electrical signals from my fingers. Well, what are good brands/types of conductive paint that aren’t just silver or nickel? I was hoping for something darker, maybe black or red.
Also, is there a specific technique for painting the jog wheels? I would think that sand/prime/prime/paint/paint wouldn’t really work on this.
So yeah, being I have absolutely NO experience with this, please, educate me.
dude i just sanded mine and then spray painted the tops of them with universal black automotive spray paint, they turned out great and work perfectly. idk what you would need conductive paint for?
I just scratched with my VCI 100 jog wheel using a wooden spoon so im guessing that theres no conductivity as wood doesnt conduct electricity (if i remember right from school).
I would not consider this to be a very scientifically based experiment but the results were convincing enough.
i just repainted my jog wheels after the original paint job i had given them. i wanted to make this paint job last, so i went for the sand/primer/primer/paint/paint job. last time i didnt have any problems with the touch sensitivity through just some normal spray paint (didnt check for conductivity), so i thought i would do the same. however, this time, i believe the primer had something to do with it, because when i put the jog wheels back on, they were no longer touch sensitive. so basically i ended up resanding the jog wheels back to bare metal and only applying a few thin layers of paint, and they are touch senstive again, and still look just as pretty. so my advice would be skip the primer and just go for a few quality, yet thin, layers of paint
As long as the paint that you put on them isnt too thich then the sensors will be able to pick up the electrostatic electricity from your fingers - you will just have to turn up the sensor levels a bit.
Just be careful not to put too much paint on and it will work.
this will definitely not ruin your controller. first, you still have the underside, unpainted part of the jog wheel. if all else fails, flip the jog wheel over and you have a shiny new silver jog wheel. secondly, it was very easy to sand off the first paint job that desensitised my jog wheels in the first place, and just paint it over again
Seems that your wooden spoon might be a bit wet because the top platter of the vci should not get it. If you want to do some more mythbusters experiment try to activate the top platter with a piece of plastic or some paper between your fingers and the platter. You will see that they dont pick up the signal, so as bento says, they do sense the electrostatic electricity.
Hah the spoon had just come out of a pan of boiling pasta so im guessing that it was damp cus the waveform moved. Just tried with a plastic spatula and got nothing.
Even more scientific.
And yes im mapping my VCI on the kitchen table whilst cooking..!
Its a big kitchen and if im really honest my girlfriend was doing the cooking i just whipped the spoon out to test the jog wheels.
I can burn a salad..!
Slight off topic.
Whats the news on the Jog Grips . I definitely need something on my VCI .
Also:
Whats the dealio with the jog grips ? As we have established the Jog Wheels need to be manipulated with skin .
Dont the Jog grips make the wheel surface even smaller ?
Do you need one finger on the grip and one on the actual wheel for it to work ???
This seems a little hit and miss…
Any thoughts on the Jog Grips and how well they work guys?
Im thinking i may need to paint them with conductive paint that will give a bit more grip.
The standard wheel is to slippy. Im doing that old vinyl trick of licking my finger a bit and rubbing them to make them tacky…
