Bump.....anyone home?<br><br><br>Sent from Xfinity Connect Application<br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br><br>From: mgcollins@comcast.net<br>To: simpits-tech@simpits.org<br>Sent: 2019-04-01 4:16:18 PM <br>Subject: [simpits-tech] Flight Link Cyclic issue....need some help<br><br><!DOCTYPE html>
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</head><body><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">Hey all,</p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">I'll probably post this over at SIM HQ MMJOY thread as well, but I wanted drop it here to this group as well since there is a large brain trust here that may have some ideas...</p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style"><br></p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">So, for over a year (Thanks to Gene for pushing me over to the MMJOY solution... ;)), I have been converting over all my old Thrustmaster stuff....this TOTALLY rocks and I've been having a blast playing Elite Dangerous.</p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style"><br></p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">I decided to tackle the last major set of "controls"....these are my very basic helicopter "cockpit. This has a Flight Link G2 that I had long ago slaved over to an FLCS set of guts. I took the FLCS head off and then added cable and ran it back to the FLCS circuit board. I also slaved the POTs over as well. This was all done a very long time ago and it worked great for years via the normal Thurstmaster Gameport setup with stick/throttle/pedals.</p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style"><br></p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">I thought that converting over to full USB would be easy.</p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style"><br></p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">Well....sort of. I've not setup the buttons from the FLCS yet, but I don't think I'll have an issue there. Where I'm running into an issue is the POTS. As my first step in converting over to USB/Arduino/MMJOY, I combined the hot and ground for each pot (Hot/pitch to hot/roll to Arduino board. Same for Roll), then put a separate lead for each center post for the POTS. I've done this for 3 other FLCS setups with no issues. So once I plugged it all in, I could only seem to get the roll pot to work/showup in MMJOY. </p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style"><br></p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">So I separated all the wiring and started over. The Roll pot works fine. No issues. The Pitch pot does not work at all.</p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style"><br></p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">i'm REALLY reluctant to take the Flight Link fully apart to get to the pot because I'm afraid that I might not get it back together. What info would you need to help me troubleshoot this? </p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style"><br></p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">It has been a long while since i've used these (they are on a VERY old machine running XP) but there were no issues when I ran it last. How can I try and troubleshoot the POT? </p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style"><br></p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">One interesting thing. When I have the pitch pot connected I get a wildly squiggly line (very large swings top to bottom) showing up in MMJOY VKB Joytester app. When I grab a hold of the metal base, the lines wild swings (top to bottom) get much smaller. I'll try and get a screen shot to show what I mean.</p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style"><br></p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">Thanks</p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style"><br></p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">Mark</p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style"><br></p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style"><br></p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style"><br></p></body></html>
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