I live in the UK and own a Thrustmaster F1. Now for the second time a
problem has occurred in the pot in the wheel. When I move across a point
in the wheel it 'jumps' all over the place. This as you can imagine
makes GPL very difficult.
There is a very small selection of wheels available here in the UK, I am
also nervous about buying any expensive wheel over the internet.
What are the best wheels out there? I could force my self to spend 200,
but I can't justify much more than that.
Any advice would be helpful.
Scott
Have you thought about just replacing the pot in your existing wheel? The
bungee cord'll go next. Buying a high spec potentiometer over the net using
a credit card or buying replacement pots from thrustmaster seem to be the
cheapest.Take your browser to
http://ecci.net/ecci_01.htm to gaze in awe at the cadillac of racing
wheels. jv
If you want a cheap and easy way to fix the problem for the meantime get
some wd40 and spray that into the pot. Thats what Playcorp ( Thrustmaster's
aus distributer) suggested to me. It works for a while.
As my T2 is getting on almost 2 1/2 years old now I actually drilled a hole
through my plastic cover on my T2 to that I could spray direct to the pot
without removing the cover. Eg just before you race.
Just a though.
Allan Harrison
% I live in the UK and own a Thrustmaster F1. Now for the second time a
% problem has occurred in the pot in the wheel. When I move across a point
% in the wheel it 'jumps' all over the place. This as you can imagine
% makes GPL very difficult.
You just need to clean the steering pot. It's dirty....
To clean the pots on Thrustmaster products, get some Tuner/Switch
Cleaner and Lubricant from an electronics supply store. Open up the
housing on the unit and spray the insides of the pot (short for
potentiometer). I usually direct the spray (via the tube extenstion for
the spray nozzle) into the openings of the pot where the solder lugs
are. Then move the wheel or pedal through its full range 4-6 times to
work the cleaner over all the contacts. If the unit was acting up quite
a bit, you may want to give it a second "cleaning" before sealing up the
unit and heading back out to the track.
There are pots for each pedal and for each lever on the back of the GP1
wheel. The latter can usually be cleaned by finding a "squarish" hole on
the pot and directing the spray through the hole. You should be able to
clean the pots for the levers without disassembling anything on your
GP1, however to get to the steering wheel pot you will need to remove
the housing cover of the wheel.
[For the non-electronics or non-mechanical racers out there, the pot is
the "silver" cylinder that the is directly behind the wheel inside the
housing. It should have some wires connected to it and the wheel is
connected its plastic shaft. There should be a "shaft" coming out of one
end of the cylinder.]
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