As a repair company we use these on the daily. Small error in the article: it’s not true that due to potential power demand, hall-effect sticks can’t be used one-on-one in current controllers.
They absolutely can and we use them all the time in that application. Tmr is slightly more sensitive and thusly more accurate but that effect is hardly noticeable. Not in any meaningful way to prioritize tmr over hall, anyway.
We do use Tmr more in controllers where the trigger sensor also has hall-effect. Less interference that way.
So they both solve different problems for us and are therefore used in different scenarios.
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