My pedals are plugged direct into the back of the machine. The yoke direct into the front or back. The main controller is plugged into the Yoke, via mini round plug, the secondary, a standard USB plug, either into the front or back, or the yoke.
Would have been better if the main controller had a USB plug as well.Plugging in other joysticks, they are steady as a rock. The fact that it is only the one lever, which is the most used, which is causing the problem.
I do not think the life cycle of those carbon sliders is very high.As I recall, I had no problem with either, before reinstalling Vista a fair while ago. Only since then.
Perhaps an upgrade to Win7 will do the trick, or not as the case may be.Or perhaps deleting all the Hub devices in the device manager, and let Windows recreate them would help. There is a lot of them.
Frank----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerry Winskill" <gwinsk@xxxxxxx>
To: <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 1:54 PM Subject: [jhb] Re: Quadrants
Mine are both fine. I thought they were going downhill, a couple of months ago, coincident with the change to W7. Eventually I sorted them out, by a mixture of uninstall followed by reinstall, plus changing the USB Hub into which they were plugged. I think it was the last move that cured them, so it would be worth trying this first. Best bet might be to try plugging one of them directly into a USB socket on the PC, then see how it behaves. The downside of a large number of USB connected addons seems to be unwanted interaction. Occasionally I find that changing something like an ADF frequency can also result in a change in my GF Autopilot's Altitude setting. Gerry Winskill Frank Fisher wrote:I have just fired off an email to Saitek regarding my ProFlight Throttle quadrants. The secondary quadrant, a few months back, developed a fault, namely the throttle and mixture levers were giving out an unstable output, and basically unusable. It is now in use solely for the buttons which is controlling my AC electrics, Gens/Batt/Starter etc.Now the main throttle is going the same way, unstable and bouncing outputs.These units are just over 2 years old, with reasonable use, mainly for GA and some jets, for Helios, I use a Saitek twiststick. A careful examination inside, reveals the lever controllers, are constructed using open to the atmosphere carbon sliders, instead of the more usual, and more robust, rotary pots. Ok, so the units are smaller for that. I imagine that dust has filtered inside and on to the carbon face, and then wiped by the slider, which has gradually worn off the face, reducing electrical contact. A very poor design. I am now faced with the prospect of replacing said controllers, sooner rather than later than expected. The Yoke and Pedals are A1. Depending on Saiteks response. Replacement controllers. Saitek? Costing? Replacement controllers CH? Costing? Or dig out my soldering iron, and replace the pots with sealed rotary ones. A new housing for the larger pots will be needed of course. Anyone else with Saitek throttle controllers, beware. I got mine from Pixmania, so I am not expecting a good response from Saitek. I am not a happy bunny. Frank
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