Which is best for a stable CH Setup....

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Its not your gear. It is probably the settings you have under power management. I will have to look at it in more detail to sort it out. By the time I do someone else will probably have the solution posted.

Bios or Windows?

[Chalenge]

You want the USB ports to always have 5v either way. Setup Windows for performance over energy conservation.

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You want the USB ports to always have 5v either way. Setup Windows for performance over energy conservation.

Device manager says, when they're all plugged into the MB, that they are getting 32mA.  I thought for 5V, 100mA was necessary.  Is that wrong?  The keyboard and mouse that I have wirelessly are using 100mA.  How in the hell do I even check how much power is really available at the USB ports????

[bustr]

CH draws 32ma and the devices are USB 1.01.

Saitek draws 100ma and devices are USB 2.0.

USBDView.exe will show you all of this.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/USBDeview.shtml

Voltage and amperage are not synonymous. Many IC chips use 5V, 3V, 1.5, 1.3, 1.2 and so forth. And a vast range of milli amperage draw. If you are worried, open your joystick and research the chip for it's min\max volt\amp specs. I forget if there is a power filter on the jopystick board to protect the chip. It will have specs you can research.

Here is a great tool to look at all the raw output of all HID controllers on your PC.

DIView.exe

http://www.leobodnar.com/shop/index.php?main_page=page&id=12

You can also convert some old gameport joystick\pedals to USB with his BUO386 contoller chips.

[nrshida]

I have a Belkin 7 port powered hub with a full CH USB setup.  It has been rock solid for at least the past 4 years.  I use the CH Manager software with lots of buttons programmed.  Always solid performance.

I have the same powered hub, a CH fighter stick, CH pedals and a homemade throttle, a USB headset and no CH Manager software and I think I have had to re-calibrate once in three years. I play AH on an Apple Laptop.

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I have the same powered hub, a CH fighter stick, CH pedals and a homemade throttle, a USB headset and no CH Manager software and I think I have had to re-calibrate once in three years. I play AH on an Apple Laptop.

I think I'll fire the hub back up after I check the voltages...it flew better with it.   It will be interesting to see what the voltages are though.  Thanks fellas.

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Thanks fellas...hooked up a new powered USB hub, removed CH manager, calibrated properly in Windows and pow!  New, smooth flying.  Hell, its so different, some of the a/c respond differently than how I've been flying them.  That old hub must have been shot to hell.

Thanks guys.