Author Topic: Is There Any Way I Can Fix Old Pedals?? (Read 351 times)

Drumss · « **on:** April 21, 2006, 08:46:59 AM »

hi everyone,

my CH Pedals finally gave up on me, after 6 years of hard work. i just wanted to know, before I reluctantly toss them. I loved those pedals:)

Is there anything i can do to FIX the CH rudder pedals?

I'm retired in saint lucia, west indies, so it will take a month for the new pedals to get here. Is there anything i can do to FIX my old pedals??

anything I can BUY to put in old CH rudder pedals that would FIX them? I have no clue here - just wondering

Ive never done this kind of thing before but im great at following directions... so if anyone has time and has the answer, I'd appreciate it,

grounded in Saint lucia,

majortom

Auger · « **Reply #1 on:** April 21, 2006, 12:38:22 PM »

Drumss, can you give us a bit of detail on what's not working? Most of the time, a problem with CH gear is due to the potentiometers wearing out. You can get new ones for $10 plus shipping from CH, or get the specs off of the old one and buy it locally. Which is probably not an option for you. If it's a broken spring or a bad cable you can also get a replacement from CH.

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 21, 2006, 01:15:45 PM »

What he said ^^^

Also alot of people have the problem of a wire getting pinched in the action and broken, which is easy enough to fix. The problem is getting it back together.

This guy gives some good pics of the inside and walks through putting it together again, but this is mainly a Cougar upgrade site, this walkthrough is intended to show how to make the toe brakes work on the analog pedals with a Cougar.

http://cougar.frugalsworld.com/mods.php#CH

There is a much better walkthrough of replacing pots and rewiring the pedals on another site but I dont have the link here at work. If no one else pops in with it I'll do so when I get home tonight.

Good luck with them! Mine are over 9 years old now, and replaced 1 pot.

Drumss · « **Reply #3 on:** April 21, 2006, 02:18:29 PM »

now I have RIGHT rudder working fine and nothing on the LEFT.

Auger, i took the LEFT rudder apart and didnt see anything wrong, but all of sudden the LEFTS pedals not working at all. I re calibrated got thee RGT working fine.
When i recalibrateted there was nothing happening on the left side. no reading at all in game controllers / ah setup / calibrate. it was all on tthe right!!

I think maybe I didnt put it back together right.

Ill go look at your reply and pictures and check it out again.

~~Drumss~~

Drumss · « **Reply #4 on:** April 21, 2006, 02:20:14 PM »

oh yeah spring and cable looked fine.

Drumss · « **Reply #5 on:** April 21, 2006, 02:22:41 PM »

whats potentiometers?

are they under footplate??

Drumss · « **Reply #6 on:** April 21, 2006, 03:27:57 PM »

i cant find anything for CH parts

Or Potentiometers anywhere. does some one have a CH pedals homepage or link.

I put things the right way on the left side and now ive got nothing in my pedals. its like they were unpluged. I wouldnt mind buying some new potentiometers - i just cant find any links for them when i do a search.

I m not ready to toss the old CH pedals yet, if someone can put me in touch with a link to BUY potentiometers

still grounded in saint lucia,

Drumss

Callisto · « **Reply #7 on:** April 21, 2006, 03:42:48 PM »

mmm..St.Lucia, sounds like a nice place

http://www.ch-hangar.com/

visit their forum/message board, you can get in touch with CHproducts tech support people there.

GunnerCAF · « **Reply #8 on:** April 21, 2006, 04:22:48 PM »

These must be the CH Pedals, not the Pro Pedals?

I have the old CH Pedals that you can no longer get, they are about 10 years old and work just fine outside of a little spiking.

Make sure the "CAR/Plane" switch is on "Plane" . I may not have the exact words printed on the pedal, but you will find a small switch. In Car mode, it will act as two different axises, and in Plane mode, it acts like rudders and one axis.

Next check if it's a calibration problem. I think I had this once. Recalibrate in windows, then recalibrate in AH.

If that isn't it, you may want to look for broken wires. If it just quit, I bet you will find something is broke. First check the obvious, and work your way to the unlikely.

1. Plug, is it plugged in correctly?
2. Where the cable connects to the plug, wiggle it to see if you get a responce.
3. Check for kinks in the cable.
4. Where the cable enters the pedals.
5. At the CAR/Plane switch. Move this back an forth to see if this help.

Good Luck,

Gunner

Drumss · « **Reply #9 on:** April 21, 2006, 04:53:58 PM »

oh yes,

I forgot to mention I have the OLD CH Pedals.

Not the CH Pros!

Drumss

Drumss · « **Reply #10 on:** April 21, 2006, 05:08:04 PM »

Gunner thanks for the tips,

I did them all and still not getting nothing

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #11 on:** April 21, 2006, 06:48:25 PM »

Drumss, this is what a Potentiometer (Pot) looks like:

You can think of it like a radio tuner on a digital radio. You turn the knob one way, the dial scans up. Turn it the other way, dial scans down. Release the knob, it returns to center and there is no input. That describes what a Pot does in a joystick or the pedals. Except the Pots only go one way. So you should have one on each side, one for left and one for right. I'm not sure on your standard pedals if there is a toe brake Pot or not. I've never seen inside one of those, just the Pro. If so then there will be a third one at the front.