Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

In response to some earlier posts:

The dtxpress brain does respond to variable hi hat pedal control,
it's just that the standard pedal doesn't work well in the middle
ranges. 

I've seen many posts here about the uncontrolable "semi open" hi hat,
so for what it's worth I'm working on a retrofit 
for the existing dtxpress pedal. It's not finished yet due
to my ineptness at the mechanical implementaion, but here's
what I've got so far:

http://www.rainfall.com/dtxpress/pedal.html