thor363

The only other variation I've seen is where they specify brown, it may be grey or purple, the other colors have been the same. Perhaps yours was factory repaired? This is the female mini-DIN 5 pin connector, not the male from the actual handle. This was a U.S. market item also. Not sure if they made a different batch and wiring in the U.K. If you need the color to actual pins on the cable so you can correlate them, just let me know. I'll try and help if I can.

Thread only for final pic received from Thrustmaster. For those fixing the 5 pin mini-DIN connector from the base up through the connector which is seen commonly severed from the factory (pick any thread where joystick buttons don't work or only some work, or various glitches in button presses while in flight and maneuvering). Note one large black is connected to the DIN side as ground.

Baffed brand new TM Warthog You must have been one of the lucky ones! Mine came brand new like this photo shows. I've waited a week for the new parts, which is a replacement 5 pin female mini-DIN and a tiny ribbon cable and a new ground wire. These all need to be micro-soldered in (TM says all this doesn't void warranty...they had asked me to open this up and check it btw). I've also wanted a proper wire color to 5 pin solder diagram, which they haven't been able to provide. The photos they had sent came from their own internal Wiki, and are not clear, nor correct. Still hoping someone who has taken the female 5 pin mini-DIN out of the base (gently) can shoot a picture of the color to pin combo. Non of my buttons on the stick had worked at all, yet the independent throttle is working perfectly. BTW, some have mentioned a sticktion problem, but it appears the grease has been changed in new releases to a white grease which may be a lithum grease...not sure what it is but it's smooth. In my humble opinion, I wish for such issues, that Thrustmaster sent a brand new INSPECTED and QUALITY ASSURED base unit once I was confirmed as the original purchaser...that would be proper customer service.

TM's 5 Pin Mini DIN Pinout diag for reference Pic only

Pic added

Pic of 5 pin DIN This is the reference pic from TM support. Note the super crappy solder job. I'm still not convinced that this is the correct from the factory wire color/pin connections. Anyone with a proper pic with a factory connection...it would be appreciated. Thanks guys! Also thanks to Ronin for the Warthog Vid, it was awesome.

I'm pretty sure even if I only run on one of my two 6970 2gb cards, it'll be fine...but thanks for the suggestion! Maybe I do need a Video card upgrade! ;)

Please PM me if you get this off the ground. I'm in...

Don't feel bad, mine came brand new with three severed wires. Still dealing with TM support on that one... just get them to send a new 5 pin micro DIN cable and DIN since it was probably already partially severed when you got it. They seem to destroy them during assembly on a regular basis. See other thread.

Warthog QA Agreed. I heard the same issues with the throttle also. I've asked TM to escalate my question to management. Asking...what are they doing to add a QA step to have someone test the end product? Making the consumer into your QA tester of the most expensive (which should equal highest quality) joystick on the market, is not a way to garner more market share. Pretty lame IMHO. I have to admit though, if you are persistent with TM Tech Support, they do stay in touch. I call, I email and I never give up. :pilotfly:

New Warthog - severed wires during production assembly Just as background, a common problem I've been seeing is that there is frequently severed or at least pinched wires running up through the stick itself. I had ZERO buttons working on my brand new stick right out of the box. The stick x/y pitch and roll was fine though. The throttle portion was perfect BTW also. I 'pursued dilligently' and finally had Thrustmaster support on the line. They eventually agreed that since it was brand new, that they wanted me to open up the stick and see if any wires were severed or disconnected...and they agreed it would not void my warranty. So I opened it up gently, and found the 5 pin mini DIN connector on my stick had one severed wire, one mutilated wire, and one literally was shredded. Basically this was a simple QC problem that proves that these sticks (as awesome as I think the component quality is), were never TESTED from the factory. That's what I find to be lame. It would have been immediately rejected and refitted. As for the actual smoothness of the stick, it's like butter and not a catch. It's using a new type of grease from what I can see which is white. People complaining had previously said they were using a red grease that was causing 'sticktion' (their word not mine). This one from a movement perspective is awesomely smooth. So here I await the replacement parts and will let you know how it goes later. Also note that I had the option to RMA the stick, but I wanted it to stay here and be fixed properly seeing what their assembly people already had done. Check 6, Thor. :thumbup: