Thrusty Formula T1 pedals as rudders?

Hi all, Anyone know if it's possible to connect your favorite joypole to your Formula T1 pedals so you can use them as rudders? I use an F-16 FLCS. Simply unplugging your wheel and pluging in the Joystick doesn't seem to work for me, any ideas? Please post a complete method on what you did. BTW, I have already opened up the pedal unit and put the pedals in a better position - Thrustmaster don't waste any money on extraneous wires, I had to solder in new ones long enough for the job! :-) I'm sure that it must be possible as Thrusty seem to have done all they can to discourage you connecting up: No screws to open the pedal unit (you have to drill it out), wires not long enough. It seems silly to buy an RCS when the T1 could be put to good effect. TIA, -- +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ~ \ _ / ~ \ \(-)/ / ----- ~_______~ _______________[__]=[_(-)_]=[__]_______________ V I S O R +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --

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>Hi all, >Anyone know if it's possible to connect your favorite joypole to your >Formula T1 pedals so you can use them as rudders? I use an F-16 FLCS. >Simply unplugging your wheel and pluging in the Joystick doesn't seem to >work for me, any ideas? Please post a complete method on what you did. >BTW, I have already opened up the pedal unit and put the pedals in a >better position - Thrustmaster don't waste any money on extraneous >wires, I had to solder in new ones long enough for the job! :-) >I'm sure that it must be possible as Thrusty seem to have done all they >can to discourage you connecting up: No screws to open the pedal unit >(you have to drill it out), wires not long enough. >It seems silly to buy an RCS when the T1 could be put to good effect. >TIA,

I have used my T1 pedals as rudders successfully in MW2, Apache, and USNF. I plug the pedals in to the gameport (a Gravis adjustable), then the WCS II into the pedals and finally the joystick into the WCS (the hat must be set to digital ). I was not able to get the pedals to calibrate properly in 1942 PAW. The one problem you will run into is that the pedals work in reverse when playing flight sims, just turn them around and prop them up with the yellow pages. Works good and I figure I've given TM enough cash already without buying $100 pedals!

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>Hi all, >Anyone know if it's possible to connect your favorite joypole to your >Formula T1 pedals so you can use them as rudders? I use an F-16 FLCS. >Simply unplugging your wheel and pluging in the Joystick doesn't seem to >work for me, any ideas? Please post a complete method on what you did. >BTW, I have already opened up the pedal unit and put the pedals in a >better position - Thrustmaster don't waste any money on extraneous >wires, I had to solder in new ones long enough for the job! :-) >I'm sure that it must be possible as Thrusty seem to have done all they >can to discourage you connecting up: No screws to open the pedal unit >(you have to drill it out), wires not long enough. >It seems silly to buy an RCS when the T1 could be put to good effect. >TIA, >-- >+------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > ~ \ _ / ~ > \ \(-)/ / > ----- > ~_______~ > _______________[__]=[_(-)_]=[__]_______________ > V I S O R >+------------------------------------------------------------------------+ >--

Clive, If you're ambitious enough to open the unit up one more time, then it should be able to be done. The problem you've been running into was probably the fact that the Formula T1 pedals work in the opposite way as the RCS. Sooo, you basically need to just go inside the unit and rewire the Pots. To change the direction of the pots, simply swap the wire on the left or right hand Pot Terminal, and move it to the other side(if it was on the right switch it to the left or vice versa). Actually, you're best bet would be to wire in a switch that would allow you to switch from Flight Sim mode, back to Racing Sim mode, and back again. Your second alternative would be to just calibrate them backwards, which should work, and use them that way! Let me know if you need anything else! Matt ThrustMaster, Inc.

Hi! May be this will come in handy... It's quite easy to make pedals yourself if you have two joysticks. Just break joystick2 Y electric circuit and insert variable resistor which is controled by some "pedals". So you have yoke(joystick1), pedals and throttle control (joystick2). It works OK in FS 5. Mike