Hardware TMR joycon stick tension - I will do science to it!

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I still use original joycon in Ring Fit Adventure, and if they happen to be attached to charge when I need to use the Switch handheld (installing games, updating homebrew) rather than docked. Got fed up with both the original sticks and the free set of generic white sticks that they sent me with my MobaPad M6HDs drifting (registering as fully up or fully down, correctable with system calibration). Ordered a bunch of TMR sticks. Here's how they compare:

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Ginfull JF19 v 1.3 (right) https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005012027854449.html

Weight 3.0 g
Stick click engages at 560-630 g and releases at 440-450 g.
Force to make the stick hit the gate edges 55±4 g


K-Silver JS19 (top) https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008703165788.html

Weight 3.3 g
Stick click engages at 580-660 g and releases at 460-490 g.
Force to make the stick hit the gate edges 57±3 g


GuliKit NS40T (left) (apparently same hardware as the K-Silver but with interchangeable coloured stick caps) https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005010746930796.html

Weight 3.6 g
Stick click engages at 580-640 g and releases at 450-470 g.
Force to make the stick hit the gate edges 58±7 g


Tested using my coffee scale, which reads to 0.01 g, but there's no way I can actually measure that precisely, when I'm pressing by hand and am looking for the point when the rate of change of force with displacement changes. I move the stick in all four cardinal directions to work out the range of values.

There's really not much to choose between them based on this. I'm going to try the GuliKit sticks first, as the standard caps should work with the KontrolFreek-style extenders I have, whereas the Ginfull ones are a bit thicker and won't.
 

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