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Thanks a lot for the investigation :thumbup: I actually got used to the flickering. When concentrating on not crashing into some enemy missiles i find myself not even recognizing the problem. Still confused about Thrustmasters design. Cross-talk and interference is a known problem coming from the 50Hz power grid. Often times the USB line features a ferrite bead to get rid of possible noise signals. But i never heard of a similar problem coming from the issue adressed above so i might be totally wrong :) Anyway, thanks again and have some nice flights :pilotfly:

xxJohnxx, thanks for the participation regarding this "problem". I totally forgot the possible usage of software PWM. Really looking forward hearing more about the results of the measurements :thumbup: I thought about doing that myself, but i got the HOTAS just on last saturday, so i may return it within 2 weeks to get full money back and i don't want to loose this option yet.

Haha nice, another EE student. I fully agree with what you said. Yet i don't understand why i recognize that flickering.

I don't want to sound cocky, but being an EE student i know how to "dim" LEDs. It is done by using PWM (Pulse Width Modulation). The LED voltage is toggled from beeing high for some time and then low. This toggle sequence is likely to be set at a higher frequency than the human eyes can perceive. The eye sort of memorizes the emmited light and so it seemes like the LED is on the whole time. I actually designed a background LED circuit myself and adjusted the brightness by using PWM. I used a frequency in the kHz region and that worked out just fine. As i mentioned earlier the Thrustmaster MFDs are adjustable without this flickering. Maybe i just make a mountain out of a molehill but regarding that price tag for the HOTAS i am a bit confused here :joystick: Ok, thanks for the information. My HOTAS doesn't flicker on full brightness too, but playing in my dark nerd room it is quite distracting xD Thanks for all the input so far :)

Does it flicker when set to a lower brightness? I am thinking about returning the Hardware, but since everything except the LED thing is working just fine, i don't want to give it away just to end up with a new HOTAS that shows the same flickering because it is designed that way :dunno:

Hey Mike, do you mind setting the brightness to the lowest setting (value 43) and look for any flickering? It would help me a lot i guess. #EDIT: It is a pretty subtle flickering by the way, not that horror movie type of flickering ^^

Well, if the frequency is set fast enough the human eye should not see that flickering. But if you tell me you experienced the same with your HOTAS throttle, i guess Thrustmaster designed it that way. I just think it is strange because the Cougar MFDs do not show that behaviour....

Hey guys, i recently bought the Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog and i am wondering why the LEDs on the throttle flicker. This is pretty anoying on the lowest 2 brightness levels. The higher ones tend to be better. So, is this a known problem? Or did i just receive a throttle device with a malfunctioning PWM (pulse width modulation) section :huh: