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   The button I use to upshift is intermittent.  
I've replaced it, from a local source, and the
problem persists.  

   ECCI recommended replacing both wheel and
pedal cables, so I got both from them.  

   I've replaced the pedal cable yesterday,
that operation seems to have been successful.  

   This morning I replaced the wheel cable.  
Not well apparently, I'm getting a "Not Connected"
when trying to set up the wheel through the
Control Panel.  

   The instructions seem a little vague.  

   There are 9 wires in the CDS4000's cable,
and instructions for connecting 7 of them.

   The problem stems from the fact that the
replacement cable is for a different controller, a
CDS4000.  Instructions for using this cable with
a CDS2 are shipped with the cables.  

   The CDS4000 cable has 9 wires, 6 terminate
in a socket, 3 other wires have separate
connectors.  
.  
   The socket is to be cut off and the wires
soldered to to wires from the CDS3's cable to
the joystick port.  

   A blue and a brown wire carries the signal
from the CDS2's photometer to the joystick
connector.  These are to be soldered to the
yellow and purple wires, respectively, from
the 6 that were in the CDS4000's socket.  

   The strange part is that the CDS4000 cable
has a blue and a brown wire that are not
connected with the 6 wire socket.  The paragraph
that instructs to cut off the socket finished
with "BE CAREFUL TO AVOID CUTTING THE BLUE AND
BROWN POT WIRES".  The caps are theirs.  Do NOT
cut these wires.  

   Nothing else is said about these mysterious
brown and blue wires.  

   Are they to replace the CDS2's blue and brown
wires on the pot?  If so, why did I solder those
two wires to the yellow and purple wires in the
CDS4000 cable?    

   It's Saturday, about noon.  I'm counting on
you to help me get online tonight.  

                                       Thanks
                                       Larry

   The CDS2 uses a potentiometer, not a
photometer.

I also suspect that your problem lies within the cable which travels up the
column to the wheel hub, I had the same thing about a year ago.

Don McCorkle

Thanks Don:

   Yea, you are right.  Replacing the original
wires for the pot with those in the CDS4000 cable
get the pot connected and the wheel/pedal recognized
by the control panel.  

   Unfortunately, now I have only one button that
works.  Troubleshooting this would be simpler if I
hadn't shrink wrapped those solder joints.  

   Yea, this is what I wanted to do all Saturday.  

   I appreciate your assistance.  

                                             Larry

   My wheel is working as well as it was.  My problem
was caused by me clipping the cable between wheel and
gameport, inside the wheel housing and matching that
up with the CDS4000 cable.  I didn't realize the harness
inside the wheel had different color wire.  

   Anyway, it's this internal harness that must be bad,
because the original problem, both buttons on the right
side are intermittent.  

   So I'll try to get the components to get the internal
harness from ECCI.  It's basically a 6, or 7 wire shielded
cable cable.  Fry's is willing to sell me a thousand feet.  
I'm hoping ECCI will sell, or give, me a couple of yards.  

                                                 Thanks
                                                 Larry

Don McCorkle