Author Topic: CH Control Problems (Read 301 times)

jazzman6 · « **on:** August 06, 2005, 08:50:31 PM »

Ran into a weird problem last night. A wire broke in my CH Pro Pedals, knocking out the brakes. In the process of fixing it and recalibrating, I can no longer get AH to recognize all the devices (I have a CH Fighterstick, CH Pro Throttle, CH Pedals). While it lists all of them in the display, it only recognizes axis/button inputs from one or two of them (the actual devices seem to be random - currently it only recognizes the pedal input). The 'unrecognized devices' show no changes (i.e., moive the stick and there is no change in the raw data from X/Y - they both show 0.

I've removed/reinstalled both the control devices and AH several time, but this behavior remains. Any ideas?

-Jazz

jazzman6 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 06, 2005, 10:04:14 PM »

Obviously all I had to do was post the question here and 5 minutes later I figure it out... :-)

For the record, when the controls show up in the window, they do not respond to anything until you do both a set input and apply - then they automagically start to respond. I was faked out by the fact that I wasn't seeing responses, but had never done the above steps (since I figured it didn't work).

In searching the archives I found the same info stated in different words a couple of times, that's what finally tipped me off.

-Jazz

FOGOLD · « **Reply #2 on:** August 07, 2005, 02:11:09 AM »

I've run into that before in AH.

How did you find fixing the toe brake wires? I've heard that taking CH padals to pieces is a nightmare!

jazzman6 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 08, 2005, 05:47:08 AM »

Yeah - it kinda 'explodes' when you remove the cover!

There are a number of pretty fine wires that come down from the pots of the brakes - in my case one of those had work-hardened and broke. I simply created a solder joint and it was OK. The mechanism inside is a pain though - the actual pedal plates run on rollers on both the top and bottom. They are in there loosely, so putting them back in is a pain; when you try to put one of the lower ones in the other 3 fall out!

-Jazz

Delirium · « **Reply #4 on:** August 08, 2005, 03:00:30 PM »

Imho, its not worth taking apart and fixing yourself... send them to CH and you'll get them back in 2 weeks and (if they are about 2 years or less old) it will only cost you a check for $10 for them to return ship them to you.

I'm not sure what you did, but you may have grounded the wires against something metal inside the pedals from what it sounds like.