[simpits-tech] Flight Link Cyclic issue....need some help

[MARK COLLINS]

Hey all,

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...


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.


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.


I thought that converting over to full USB would be easy.


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.  


So I separated all the wiring and started over.  The Roll pot works fine.  No issues.  The Pitch pot does not work at all.


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?  


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? 


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.


Thanks


Mark



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