CH Pro Pedals

[pervert]

These guys have got a real cheek selling these things for the price they go for, stopped working today opened up and found a collection of the world's most fragile wires and a black one broken. So the thing is heavy duty plastic weighs a ton and has the thinnest most fragile wires known to mankind connecting to moving parts complete joke, feel like going throwing them over the fence to be honest.

And yeah I can solder it if I want to, the same thing will happen again so I'm ditching them and going back to the twisty, so ends my dream of having any sort of aim in this game. This will hopefully give a potential buyer of this hardware some idea of the 'quality' and 'durability' CH is supposedly well know for POS.

[lyric1]

Don't look inside anything else on any other brand they are all about the same. Still under warranty?

[Blagard]

So you are not going to bother soldering a wire back on - Ah well, beats me why you even bothered looking. You obviously felt your time would be better spent taking a photo that you didn't link correctly, and some more time typing a whine. At least you have the guts to admit that if you solder it back on, it will fail again!

Throw them over the fence please, but let some other local AHer know where.

If I was you, I would write to your twisty manufacturer and let them know you want one without fragile wires in it.

[Warmongo]

I haven't seen the picture but my pedals are over 10 years old. I don't think there is a lot of mechanical stress to those wires even if they appear thin. Let's try fixing them...

[Dichotomy]

Ive had mine for almost six years with no problems.. just saying

[pervert]

Here is picture its a fair bet that simply pinching the cables in those plastic holders has caused the break along with me moving them its obviously snagged on something for the wire and plastic coating to break.

So you are not going to bother soldering a wire back on - Ah well, beats me why you even bothered looking. You obviously felt your time would be better spent taking a photo that you didn't link correctly, and some more time typing a whine. At least you have the guts to admit that if you solder it back on, it will fail again!

Yeah I'll spend my life soldering this junk every 2 weeks good thinking there champ, the point is if I pay through the nose for something like this I expect it to work and last I got what about a month and a half??, looking at how heavy duty the constrution is on the outside its comical not having more secure fixings for the impossiably thin wires, if I knew how fragile it was inside I wouldn't have bought it, considering its a controller you work with your legs. They just shove them thin wires in a small groove and hope it somehow will not break.

[zack1234]

Would have thought they would have sheathed the wire's, look a bit poo

Looks like first day on the job for guy who did your pedals

[715]

I've had the same thing happen to my CH Pro Pedals; the extremely thin wires can get caught by the moving parts and get broken.

[Blagard]

I got what about a month and a half?

So you decide to void the warranty by opening it up - You get no sympathy from me.

[pervert]

So you decide to void the warranty by opening it up - You get no sympathy from me.

I live in UK the shipping would probably cost as much as the pedals, and btw did this thread title start 'Please look in here Blagard I want your sympathy'? This is to show people what you are buying before you part with a huge amount of cash.

I hear people barking on about these pedals, I see words like sturdy, dependable, rugged etc etc so heres for anyone else to see you are buying some really heavy duty plastic with a poor wiring layout that can catch and break because the wires are poorly placed and extremely thin.

They probably put the warranty label there to stop fanbois like you finding out that they have skimped on something as essential as wire a wire guard, and or a wiring design that doesn't get caught in the pedals, unforgivable given the price of them.

[Ack-Ack]

I haven't seen the picture but my pedals are over 10 years old. I don't think there is a lot of mechanical stress to those wires even if they appear thin. Let's try fixing them...

There is a lot of stress on the wires due to a design defect that has been inherent in the Pro Pedals ever since the pedals were released for game ports in the middle '90s. 

ack-ack

[The Fugitive]

Wow, must have a crap load of stuff piled up in your backyard if you trash everything the first time you have a problem with it.

My game port versions are over 10 years old and still work fine, and my USB versions are only 5 years old, but they work fine as well. Did have a button go in my stick once, but....OMFG I fixed it 

[pervert]

Well I guess people like you are the reason ch or any company for that matter can get away with selling a product that is poorly designed, without the need to improve or fix it for 15 years. 

[LCADolby]

EEK! I purchased those... 

[ImADot]

EEK! I purchased those... 

I have them too...bought them 3 years ago.  They work fine for me.  I guess it's partly which part of the production run you get, and partly how you use something that determines how long it will last.