David
the little button is in seperate as it should be?
what are potetiometers and how do I clean them?
I am a moron so please help me!!
I guess you are a moron that won't be in tonight's race :-)
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David erb
>Seperate is good . Potentiometers or"pots" are the rotary variable resistors
>that tell your computer what position the pedal/steering wheel is. They are
>generally small metal cans with a shaft projecting to one side. As you use
>your wheel and pedals they slowly get dirty inside and start to loose their
>calibration causeing your wheel /pedals to "jitter" when in the windows
>calibration panel. To access the steering unit pots you have to undo a
>number of screws on the underside of the steering unit. Once you have access
>to the pot you have to use some sort of electrical cleaning agent such as
>spayable electrical contact cleaner to flush the gunk out of the pot. Let
>the pot dry and reassemble and recalibrate your wheel. If its the pedals
>then you need to turn the base unit over and extract all of those screws to
>get at the pots. Its not a hard job, it just takes time and some patience.
>David erb
>> >Did you check that little switch in the pedal unit? I've occasionally
>kicked
>> >mine into an intermediate position and had the calibration go strange on
>me.
>> >Only other thing I can think of is that one or more of your
>potentiometers
>> the little button is in seperate as it should be?
>> what are potetiometers and how do I clean them?
>> I am a moron so please help me!!
