Author Topic: OMG I Love CH Products! (everyone in AH buy a Belkin powered USB port!) (Read 750 times)

Citabria · « **on:** May 22, 2007, 08:34:40 PM »

Thank You CH Products!
Thank You MichaelCHProd for all the help! made a CH believer out of me after all!

wow its unreal.
all I had to do was buy a Belkin powered USB hub and hook all my stuff into it instead of my PC (including my saitek x52 and x45) not only is my CH fighterstick amazing in accuracy and control with 0 dampening and 0 deadband and sliders full linear it is like glass! smooth!

its turned ah into a whole new experience because now all my controllers have been so improved by this little powered USB hub that it is amazing the difference.

my 2 1/2 yr old CH pro pedals which jittered? GLASS!! with 0 deadband and dampening!

even my crappy old x45? GLASS!

my x52? GLASS!

if you see the raw numbers fluctuate at all in the AH control setup screen try buying this little usb hub and you might be amazed at the difference in how smooth everything suddenly is no matter who makes it.

unreal

this rocks!
everything rocks!

Citabria · « **Reply #1 on:** May 22, 2007, 08:37:34 PM »

here is a link to the Belkin powered usb hub I got...

http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=159070

Murdr · « **Reply #2 on:** May 22, 2007, 08:43:17 PM »

WOOT! Good to hear you got the solution fester.

Enduro · « **Reply #3 on:** May 22, 2007, 09:01:36 PM »

does that X52 come with a rocker switch for the rudder control?

<-- doesn't have money for pedals

lambo31 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 22, 2007, 09:03:05 PM »

I saw the other thread and did the same. Made a world of difference.

Lambo

Gwjr2 · « **Reply #5 on:** May 22, 2007, 09:10:03 PM »

LoL I was getting spikes to, must have a weak USB port I assume as my CH wheel was all over, but my yoke was fine diff port. But you got me thinking about power not getting there so I'm gonna go get a Hub as well.

Good to hear, and that CH guy that came here thats just wow...

JB73 · « **Reply #6 on:** May 22, 2007, 09:13:07 PM »

you know whats funny to me?

I only have plain old USB 1.0, and 4 total plugs on the PC 2 in from and 2 in back...

a while back when I first got the CH stick I already had my pedals, x45, mouse, and MP3 player plugged into the PC. So what did I do?

I went out an bought a belkin powered hub.

NOTHING would run properly through it. the saitek programming wouldn't see the x45, the mouse would only mover certain ways, and the CH... like it didn't exist.

When I tried to run AH, if I moved the pedals the x45 would not work, and vise versa. If I moved the mouse it took over the aileron / elevator functions from whatever stick it was "assigned" to. It was like the interrupts were shared, and anything going through the hub took over all functions.

I took the MP3 player out of the equation, and now with everything plugged directly into the PC it works.

All a hub ever did in my situation was make things not work at all.

weird huh?

JB73 · « **Reply #7 on:** May 22, 2007, 09:14:22 PM »

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Originally posted by Enduro
does that X52 come with a rocker switch for the rudder control?

<-- doesn't have money for pedals

no it is a "twisty" stick

FTJR · « **Reply #8 on:** May 22, 2007, 09:36:10 PM »

Great ! Thats all I need, Fester to be *more* accurate.

DamnedRen · « **Reply #9 on:** May 22, 2007, 11:41:08 PM »

I guess this means your ch stuff aint for sale.....rats!:furious

Ren
The Damned

Brooke · « **Reply #10 on:** May 23, 2007, 12:39:24 AM »

Yay! That is excellent news!

manurin · « **Reply #11 on:** May 23, 2007, 03:50:02 AM »

Hello Fester,

I'm glad your CH-PRODUCTS gear finally works!!

To tell you the truth I was beginning to freak out, as I, myself, just received my CH pedals, stick & throttle last week. Everything is working perfectly but I will buy a Belkin powered USB hub, just to be on the safe side.

The other thread "I hate CH..." with all the negative inputs on the CH gear, was not so justified then, (except for rolex?), and Michael is a great guy for trying to help.

all the best,

Simaril · « **Reply #12 on:** May 23, 2007, 07:59:15 AM »

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Originally posted by JB73
you know whats funny to me?

....snip....

I went out an bought a belkin powered hub.

NOTHING would run properly through it. the saitek programming wouldn't see the x45, the mouse would only mover certain ways, and the CH... like it didn't exist.

....snip....

All a hub ever did in my situation was make things not work at all.

Me too. The powered hub (don't think its a Belikin, though) makes my controllers invisible, but they work fine plugged right into my USB 2 port.

Go figure.

Speed55 · « **Reply #13 on:** May 23, 2007, 08:11:07 AM »

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Originally posted by Simaril
Me too. The powered hub (don't think its a Belikin, though) makes my controllers invisible, but they work fine plugged right into my USB 2 port.

Go figure.

Try this.. it might, or might not work.

Uninstall the drivers for your stick, throttle, trackir, ect. but save your profiles.

Plug in the powered hub.

Install the driver for the stick, plug the stick into the hub.. next for any other devices.

I don't have a powered hub, but on my old computer, but for some reason the first time i plugged my trackir into a different port it didn't read it, so i had to re-install the drivers.