General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: nrshida on December 29, 2023, 06:07:01 AM
Title: CH Products Potentiometers
Post by: nrshida on December 29, 2023, 06:07:01 AM
Does anyone know (without me having to take them apart) if CH Products uses a standard potentiometer for it's primary axis. So would a throttle pot replace a rudder brake pot in this case?
Title: Re: CH Products Potentiometers
Post by: Greebo on December 29, 2023, 06:24:47 AM
I have taken the CH stick, rudder and throttle all apart at some point over the years for maintenance and found them to all use a single type of potentiometer. Having said that I have never had to replace a brake pot on the pedals but I'd be very surprised if these were different to the rest.
Title: Re: CH Products Potentiometers
Post by: nrshida on December 29, 2023, 06:43:57 AM
Thank you Greebo, that's enough for me to proceed without feeling it's a total waste of time. Will report back after disassembly :old:
Title: Re: CH Products Potentiometers
Post by: popeye on December 29, 2023, 08:36:00 AM
Title: Re: CH Products Potentiometers
Post by: Drano on December 29, 2023, 10:28:27 AM
That stuff will work. If you're looking for a substitute just make sure it says "safe for plastics" before you spray it, otherwise it may melt stuff with the solvents. I once destroyed a really nice G15 keyboard with stuff that wasn't! Doh! One of those painful mistakes you only make once!
I haven't had to look for the CH pots in a long while after going to VKB, MFG and Virpil stuff but I'm pretty sure you can get the exact parts from Digi-key.
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Title: Re: CH Products Potentiometers
Post by: JimmyD3 on December 29, 2023, 10:45:32 AM
Digi-Key carries the replacement potentiometers. I have had to replace mine.
Title: Re: CH Products Potentiometers
Post by: LCADolby on December 29, 2023, 01:08:16 PM
I have a full set of old CH gear circa 2012 purchases that you can have to take apart for learning or use for spares
Title: Re: CH Products Potentiometers
Post by: nrshida on December 30, 2023, 05:13:15 AM
I measured the foot-brake pots on the CH rudder pedals. Unfortunately they don't seem to be the same approximately measuring 28Ω whereas the throttle pot read 100Ω. However the pots have a pretty well open slot on one side and a bloody good dose of contact cleaner seems to have done the trick. Fully working again :banana:
You'll need those soon when you come back Mr. Dolby! :aok
They were fully replaced with a fresh set in November ;)
Title: Re: CH Products Potentiometers
Post by: potsNpans on January 03, 2024, 01:06:35 PM
Well while cleaning the Pops, and snugging up the connectors. I snapped the y axis pot just below the wire tabs. Ordered 10 replacements from Digikey, REPPOT604 part is a listed replacement. Thought pots where in need of cleaning, when I'd try calibrating axis in CH manager the raw data was off by -30 from a centered data read of 128. Wondering now if its not the gimbals, it is a 2008 model. I copied a potentionmeter parts list off SIM Hq thread.
X Axis = REPPOT604 X Axis = REPPOT604 X Axis = REPPOT604 X Axis = REPPOT604 Y Axis = REPPOT604 Y Axis = REPPOT604 Y Axis = REPPOT604 Y Axis = REPPOT604 Z Axis = REPPOT604 Z Axis = REPPOT604 Z Axis = REPPOT604 Z Axis = REPPOT615 Y Rotation = REPPOT615 X Rotation = REPPOT615
200-616 Eclipse Yoke 300-111 Pro Pedals 300-122 Pro Throttle 300-133 Throttle Quadrant X Axis = REPPOT604 X Axis = REPPOT604 Z Axis = REPPOT604 X Axis = REPPOT632 Y Axis = REPPOT604 Y Axis = REPPOT604 Y Axis = REPPOT632 Z Axis = REPPOT615 Z Axis = REPPOT604 Z Axis = REPPOT632 X Rotation = REPPOT615 X Rotation = REPPOT632 Y Rotation = REPPOT615 Y Rotation = REPPOT632 Z Rotation = REPPOT615 Z Rotation = REPPOT632
Title: Re: CH Products Potentiometers
Post by: potsNpans on January 11, 2024, 05:47:53 PM
Potentionmeters arrived, and installed on USB FighterStick. Part I posted was correct replacement (REPPOT604). Pedals are next.
Title: Re: CH Products Potentiometers
Post by: nrshida on January 12, 2024, 12:43:31 AM
That stuff will work. If you're looking for a substitute just make sure it says "safe for plastics" before you spray it, otherwise it may melt stuff with the solvents. I once destroyed a really nice G15 keyboard with stuff that wasn't! Doh! One of those painful mistakes you only make once!
I haven't had to look for the CH pots in a long while after going to VKB, MFG and Virpil stuff but I'm pretty sure you can get the exact parts from Digi-key.
Sent from my SM-G991U using Tapatalk
^^^^ This
Title: Re: CH Products Potentiometers
Post by: JimmyD3 on July 27, 2026, 07:57:12 AM
I still have a couple of potentiometers spare for my old CH pedals. IIRC I got them off of Digi-key.
Title: Re: CH Products Potentiometers
Post by: AKIron on July 27, 2026, 09:08:29 AM
Title: Re: CH Products Potentiometers
Post by: AKIron on July 27, 2026, 11:13:34 AM
I bought some hall effect sensors through aliexpress a while back to use with Arduino. They worked but weren't as stable as expected. They were cheap though.
Title: Re: CH Products Potentiometers
Post by: AKIron on July 27, 2026, 11:27:38 AM
This one is probably accurate and reliable but not cheap, $22.68. Can probably find the same cheaper.