Kyle—February 8, 2025
Finally finished swapping all my and my buddies controllers with these bad bois. Now my controllers sticks feel smoother, more accurate and even lighter than a new controller. No trouble swapping in the parts, just me sucking with soldering. All 5 pairs are worked so no dead ones. Overall quality of em is great, def buying again to swap the rest of my buddies Read more
cheesenfleas—January 28, 2025
Replaced the drifting sticks in a newer Xbox Series X/S controller, works as intended. Will use the extras for other projects with Arduino. Note that you will need a quality heat gun or a powerful desoldering iron to get the stock sticks out. Read more
Mary—October 17, 2024
Purchased these since they say xbox compatible however they snap to one side within moments of play and are not able to be calibrated. They also will invert the direction of travel when playing. Yes, we googled and yes we tried adding resistors which did not solve the issue. I have now ordered a different set with calibration boards to see if we can use those. Read more
Conner—April 14, 2025
No more drift Read more
Travis—October 31, 2025
These work well for PS5 controllers. The drift problem is solved and the installation is straight forward if you're used to soldering. Only issues that I have with it are some of the sticks are not centered properly, so you have to either do adjustments with a tweezer and moving the stick around or use a software solution to fix the issue. Haven't had any issues with them being too stiff or soft, only problem is that they're just kind of all over the place and you have to make adjustments on them, not all of them, but enough for it to affect the rating. Read more
Lionel J. Morrison—December 1, 2024
I was excited about putting some hall effect sticks in my controller and they worked perfectly, kinda! The most difficult bit is getting out the old sticks. I chopped them out and worked out the left over pins. This worked a lot better than trying to use solder wick. The excess heat damaged another controller of mine. Now I have to salvage the joy sticks. However, on the controller that was successful, the right stick is perfect. Centers to zero right out of the box with no calibration needed. The left stick is also perfect. Kinda. Centers to zero. But if you pull the LT, the magnet that is connected to in it effects the position of the joystick. This can be recalibrated using the Xbox Accessories app. However, it will randomly go out and when you go back to calibrate the stick it can be a little tricky. I recommend having a spare controller on hand as if this goes out during game play... So, while I'm giving the joy sticks a middling score, that not really the fault of the sticks, its a design flaw in the Xbox One controllers. Read more
Kevin—October 28, 2024
Works perfect, on the first try. Read more
Kayden Steinhour—March 9, 2025
This is a great product and a great first soldering project. Now if you don't already own sodering equipment and cant find a place to access it this repair will cost more than a new controller. (side note the sticks are all the same this product is separated into meaningless skus.) But that cost is well worth it for the skills you will develop. there is 2 ways you can remove the old stick from your controller, both are difficult. For newbies i higely recommend a destructive method where you cut down the old stick modules into manageable pieces to remove under the heat of the iron. For newbies who think that being destructive is dumb, you will need to add a more plyable lower temperature soder to the existing joints and methodically work the problem adding removing and wiggling. the difference here is a 15 minute job and 40 minute job. HOWEVER! there is an easier way to remove multi-pin components, this involves buying 20 gauge copper wire and wrapping it around all 14 contacts of the old stick; then you add a little solder to connect that wire to the joints. What we have made here is a jerry-rigged version of the iron block Microsoft and gamestop technicians use to remove old modules. you heat the copper wire for about 40 seconds, then remove the stick as a whole unit. This will put up almost no fight so please be careful to not go too fast. DO NOT use a hot air gun, its very easy to blow away the transistor that is under the left stick and brick the controller. Now, all you need to do is add some flux to the remaining solder in the pinout and remove it with your tool of choice. I prefer solder wick for this job and liquid flux, add the liquid flux directly to the wick for best results. If the old solder does not leave within 3 tries add more into the hole and reflux your braid. I personally don't use solder suckers, but they work best with thick flux as it creates a better seal. Now you just need to use a Q-tip and alcohol or flux cleaner to get all the stickiness off the board. Remember to hit both sides. make sure the joystick is flush when you install it, don't worry about direction, they only go in one way. the other review complaining about "backwards input" simply did not do this next step in the process. these sticks have a LONG break in period, during this period they will often loose their calibration. for xbox, the easiest way to solve this is with the xbox accessories app. under calibration options you can find both the left and right stick. Select the relevant one and complete the process. THEN you will click try again, START THE CALIBRATION AND EXIT THE PROGRAM WITHOUT EVER CALIBRATING. This effectively deletes the calibration profile for the stick. you will need to do this a few times until the new stick is fully broken in. when its broken in, you can give it a calibration profile, but they don't drift so it is really pointless outside of weird niche fighting game tech. If the sticks "never break in" (especially the left one) it means your triggers have extra strong magnets in them. if this is the case i recommend installing either the clicky trigger kit from extreme rate or the trigger stop kit from extreme rate. Nintento switch pro controllers will never have this issue. this is an excellent way to get into light electrical maintenance, and opens up the world of drop in controller mods to you. I highly recommend checking out Extreme Rate here on amazon or on their own website if you don't have prime. They also do have a nuclear option for hall effects that simply wont behave. its a constant calibration board that will force the stick to give propper readouts. Its a hard install and i only recommend it if it has been 9 months and the stick still loses calibration and all else has failed. These sticks are fantastic, easy to install, and will last longer than the controller. Everone should learn sodering skills in their life time, this is an excellent place to start. Read more