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Title: HomeBoy - HELP! CH Rudders
Post by: Chalenge on March 30, 2008, 08:12:08 AM

I did a search here trying to find a relevant thread but I couldnt find one. I just bought new CH pedals to replace my ten year old ones. The new ones worked fine the first day but on day two they seem to have a mind of their own. The slightest input causes trememndous response and the brakes influence the rudders and vice versa. Unlike my first set this one has a sticker on the bottom warning that one screw (and you know it has to come out to get inside) being removed will void my warranty. From the tone of other posts on CH products I believe CH technical support and repair will be something like customer-no-service but I want to hear what you have to say.

Do you think I should try to discover the problem myself or send these back to CH for service?

Title: Re: HomeBoy - HELP! CH Rudders
Post by: airspro on March 30, 2008, 09:17:39 AM

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brakes influence the rudders and vice versa

Sounds like a setup problem . Before doing anything else check in Windows game controlers and make sure that is working right .

Then recheck that the axis for rudder and brakes are setup right in AH .

Title: Re: HomeBoy - HELP! CH Rudders
Post by: The Fugitive on March 30, 2008, 09:43:22 AM

Check the "graphs" in both windows calibration, and the game calibration first. You'll be able to see whats what. The other thing is to use a POWERED USB hub. I have my throttle, stick, and pedals plugged into a hub, then the hub into the computer. Having the powered hub gets rid of all kinds of fluctuations you could see in the settings.

If that doesn't settle things down, THEN I'd open them up. 

Title: Re: HomeBoy - HELP! CH Rudders
Post by: Chalenge on March 30, 2008, 02:34:35 PM

I cant calibrate in Windows because if I do the brake inputs center the crosshairs once the operation is complete. That translates to brakes that are half on all the time. If I calibrate the crosshair centers and just pressing my heels into the foot pedal causes that one brake to zero. The only way I could get this to work was to press 'reset defaults' on the windows properties tab for the pedals.

Title: Re: HomeBoy - HELP! CH Rudders
Post by: wrag on March 30, 2008, 06:37:52 PM

Use the CHcontrol center to calibrate!!!!!!!!

If you haven't downloaded the latest version do so and try it that way!

Title: Re: HomeBoy - HELP! CH Rudders
Post by: HomeBoy on April 01, 2008, 06:56:34 AM

Sorry, I'm just now seeing this Chalenge.  Have you seen my article on setting up CH gear?    http://snomhf.exofire.net/chConfig.html

I agree that you will do better by installing the Command Manager.  You will want to turn off the "centered" option for your brakes,  sounds like that's what making them center as you describe.

Hope this helps
-hb

Title: Re: HomeBoy - HELP! CH Rudders
Post by: Chalenge on April 02, 2008, 10:56:32 AM

Thank you Homeboy that got it working then my usb hub quit responding and then after a shutdown it came back. Had me sweating there for a minute.