=36=Witcher Posted December 12, 2019 Posted December 12, 2019 Hi all. I bought an official refurbished Warthog from Thrustmaster almost two years ago, and it always worked flawlessly. In the past few days I had a few issues with the scripts not correctly loading, but whatever, I blamed TARGET, rebooted and always fixed these issues. Until this evening... The right throttle lever is acting really crazy, with two issues at the same time: 1- From Device Analyzer I can see it correctly at the end of its range while in IDLE, but bringing it to MAX only reaches almost 60% of the range (Device Analyzer reads it at 5418 out of 16383, should be 0) 2- When lifting up the lever and bringing it to OFF, it suddendly spikes from 0% to 100% just when touching the end point I already tried the calibration tool multiple times (1.07 is the last one, isn't it?) and also tried Windows calibration. While the TM Calibration tool doesn't change anything, the Windows calibration actually seem to bring the situation normal for 1 but not for 2. Also, in TM Device Analyzer I still can see the throttle only on the 0%-60% range, even if on Windows Control Panel it shows as 0%-100%. Is there anyone here to give me some hint, please? Thanks!
Ant0ine Posted December 13, 2019 Posted December 13, 2019 I think they talk about a similar problem here on a french forum. http://www.checksix-forums.com/viewtopic.php?p=1719796#p1719796 He explain the magnet isn't correctly aligned. He rotated it about ~2mm clockwise and that solved his problem.
=36=Witcher Posted December 13, 2019 Author Posted December 13, 2019 From what I understand from Google Translate, it's unlikely we have the same issue although the symptoms are really similar: he experienced the issue from day one, while I've been flying fine for almost two years (with a few months og hiatus). Anyway, the guy is talking about a magnet but I can't quite understand where this magnet should be. Where can I find some detailed info about it?
=36=Witcher Posted December 13, 2019 Author Posted December 13, 2019 So, a little update. I managed to disassemble the whole throttle, and I played around with the position of the sensors. I am pretty sure that they are the ones to blame: [photo] because as soon as I moved around the axis data would change drastically. However I couldn't find a sweet spot to improve my scenario... I only managed to make it a little worse before going back to the point I was at before. So... I guess that the Z axis sensor is faulty, at least partially. How it happened after two years from one day to another is beyond me, but whatever. Now: unfortunately it seems that since this is a refurbished unit bought from the Thrustmaster store the warranty lasts only six months, and I am well beyond that limit. The tech support told me that they usually send a lot of spare parts, but I was wondering if they would also send that specific sensor. Also, given this new data, could it be the magnet itself that is somehow discharging? If so, do they send over that one as well?
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