This worked flawlessly! My throttles were bouncing like crazy. Took about an hour, you'll need a magnetic tip screwdriver and a long thin pair of needle nose pliers or tweezers with some good lighting. I cleaned the potentiometer surface along with the metal surface with alcohol and q tips. Thank you for the video. Works like brand new again!
Bought a used Flight Yoke System and I immediately noticed the bounce and drift issue with the TQ. It was a good thing I came upon this video because I was able to fix it up in about an hour with the right tools in hand. MASSIVE props to you for this video, it works perfectly on my used TQ. TIP! After cleaning the part, I tried it out but it was ghosting much more than before I started (which resulted in a HUGE heart attack for me haha.) But then I noticed that the contact points were almost flat. So, be sure to check if the contact points are elevated enough to actually register inputs made on the levers. A slight prod of my tweezers seemed to do the trick. Just carefully raise it a bit. THANK YOU!!!
Great video! Wasn't able to disassemble as I don't have the right screwdriver, so I gave the quadrant a spray-and-pray blast of compressed air and contact cleaner while working the levers back and forth...seems to have worked at least temporarily. Maybe something for folks to try first.
Gosh, I honestly tried, but the more I cleaned the potentiometers and put them together with levers' mountings, the more every wire kept getting away unsoldered. I tried to solder 'em all, one by one (I am terrible at soldering, I have no capacity in that field), there were 18 ends of them ultimately, but then I got terribly frustrated, so I crashed and destroyed the whole thing and threw it away! A good reason to buy Honeycomb Alpha AND Bravo, I guess… 😅 My Throttle Quadrant was so old, I think I bought it in late 2000's or perhaps in early 2010's, so it is not unreasonable to think that it was not as good as what it is today. I don't really know. Now it does not really matter anymore. 🤷🏼♂ Thank you for the interesting video, anyway. 😁
Thanks for video. I did everything, put all together but ended up with two lever doing nothing and one lever moving all three axes and swithing on some buttons at the same time. Any ideas?
Guys I ended up completely breaking my throttle quadrant while attempting to disassemble it. Indeed, the cleaning up the potentiometers is fairly simple, but some long overdried compound broke apart on the mainboard while I was uscrewing it, and one of the cables connecting the USB chord to the board snapped off. I tried soldering it back in but ended up causing a short-circuit and Windows detected dangerous voltage spikes when I tried plugging it back in. Sadly, I will be getting something else since I had been using mine for 2 weeks only. It came sealed in the box, but I suspect these units were produced years ago and the components inside are already worn out even before opening the box nowadays. I found dried glue, molten plastic and some kind of oil everywhere inside.
Oh Richard, very sorry to hear! This is a low-end cheap product… good yokes are very expensive, so a lot of care is needed not to brake anything. However, it seems your unit was at the end of its life. Hot glue and grease badly applied is normal in this units… as said, they are cheap bad quality items at the end…
Thanks for this! Gave my two saitek throttles a new lease of life. got 5 of 6 axis working again. (the 6th I yanked a wire so have to do some soldering on that one)
Very nice vid, thank you for taking the time to make it. Do you recommend any particular kind of glue to re-attach the pots? Can I use hot glue or would that melt anything?
Hi. Like the vid. I am dis-assembling to add tension to the throttle. Have removed all screws etc, but the 3 lever mechanisms just will not pull out. Any ideas please ? I just want the centre one out but have removed screws for all.
Nice one! I would like to just replace the lever on one of my slider units. I wonder if there is a place where one could just buy replacement parts for this device. Any suggestions? Thanks for a helpful tutorial.
Hi! First of all, great video. Did everything, but when I was putting everything back in place the wires on the switch box pulled out... Can anybody tell me the correct sequence or send a picture or something? I tried taking screenshots of the video to find out the sequence but I couldn't. Thanks in advance for the help. Safe Flights
I just clean mine! Thanks for the video! Putting it back was a bit tricky. I would say to put back back first the red and blue axis. Then place the black cable on the side of the blue and then the black axis. Then board and the two pieces behind the axis. Next time I will get a magnetized screwdriver to make it easier to screw back everything. ah! also you may have to bend a bit the led!
Hello. I installed the Logitech 64bit Driver Software for this Throttle, but now the Windows 10 Calibration Tool in the Game Control Manager is gone. There is only Test and Dead Zones, no Calibration anymore. I uninstalled the Software and the Throttle etc. and tried everything, but with no success. How can i get this back?
I made it, bouncing gone, but could not assemble it. Whenever I tried I had to use force to push the throttle trough the case and then cable began to break. The more I tried to fix and re-assemble the more broke. I ended up burning it completely.
Eu tenho o mesmo problema, mas com o joystick, ele está tremendo para todos os eixos, não interfere diretamente no voo, mas o joystick no simulador está tremendo, bem como as superfícies de controle. Abri para verificar se o potenciômetro seria o mesmo do quadrante de aceleração, mas é diferente e tenho medo de danificá-lo, você saberia como corrigir esse problema?
I have the same problem but with the joystick, it is shaking for all axes, it doesn't directly interfere with the flight, but the joystick in the simulator is shaking as well as the control surfaces. I opened it to check if the potentiometer would be the same as the acceleration quadrant, but it's different and I'm afraid of damaging it, would you know how to correct this problem?
Hi, please check the minute 2:11, it is the most critical. it happened to me as well the first time i cleaned it and mounted it back, it was worse than before lol. Make sure the contact point of the potentiometer is properly placed, maybe it is 180º off. Good luck!
@@BarcelonaAustinA35 I did make sure they were the right way. I also did it backwards the first time. When I tested it the controls were all over the place. After putting them the right way around it was about as good as it was before I started. It works but it's just giggly like before. Maybe a tiny bit better but overall not much improvement. Is there maybe a better cleaner I could use ( I used 91% isopropyl) ? Or maybe I just didn't scrub hard enough but I didn't want to damage it. I thought I gave it a thorough scrub but who knows?
Hm. Well, these potentiometers are really crappy, dont expect much from them. You can try cleaning a bit more thoroughly, or replace the potentiometers. Could also be related to the controller board, the original one is 10 bit and not great. A leobodnar board is a good option. I have a video on that. Might help, although looks more related to the potentiometer. Regards
@@BarcelonaAustinA35 I have same problem with brand new throttle. Opend it and clean with different cleaners 5times and doing the same... Any idea what potentiometer it uses? Looking for a New one...
This worked flawlessly! My throttles were bouncing like crazy. Took about an hour, you'll need a magnetic tip screwdriver and a long thin pair of needle nose pliers or tweezers with some good lighting. I cleaned the potentiometer surface along with the metal surface with alcohol and q tips. Thank you for the video. Works like brand new again!
Bought a used Flight Yoke System and I immediately noticed the bounce and drift issue with the TQ. It was a good thing I came upon this video because I was able to fix it up in about an hour with the right tools in hand. MASSIVE props to you for this video, it works perfectly on my used TQ.
TIP! After cleaning the part, I tried it out but it was ghosting much more than before I started (which resulted in a HUGE heart attack for me haha.) But then I noticed that the contact points were almost flat. So, be sure to check if the contact points are elevated enough to actually register inputs made on the levers. A slight prod of my tweezers seemed to do the trick. Just carefully raise it a bit.
THANK YOU!!!
Good tips Kai!
I did the same haha, bought a secondhand unit and fixed it. Good yokes are quite steep! Cheers
The most amazing thing about this video is how strongly your lever caps were stuck to the levers. I had to tape mine on. But good tutorial, thanks.
Looks like it solved my controller's bouncing, thank you so much!! :)
This solution worked like a charm. The disassemble was tricky but it paid off completely. Thanks
:)
Great video! Wasn't able to disassemble as I don't have the right screwdriver, so I gave the quadrant a spray-and-pray blast of compressed air and contact cleaner while working the levers back and forth...seems to have worked at least temporarily. Maybe something for folks to try first.
Yeah you need a pretty damn long screwdriver! Glad it helped anyway, take care!
Oh dear, had I read your comment BEFORE even starting unscrewing the whole thing, I would have ended it better. ;)
Gosh, I honestly tried, but the more I cleaned the potentiometers and put them together with levers' mountings, the more every wire kept getting away unsoldered. I tried to solder 'em all, one by one (I am terrible at soldering, I have no capacity in that field), there were 18 ends of them ultimately, but then I got terribly frustrated, so I crashed and destroyed the whole thing and threw it away! A good reason to buy Honeycomb Alpha AND Bravo, I guess… 😅
My Throttle Quadrant was so old, I think I bought it in late 2000's or perhaps in early 2010's, so it is not unreasonable to think that it was not as good as what it is today. I don't really know. Now it does not really matter anymore. 🤷🏼♂
Thank you for the interesting video, anyway. 😁
NIce video, thanks, man! I have just applied this fix to my quadrant, works like a charm.
Thanks a lot! Followed your instructions and the throttles became as new ;-)
Thank you for the video. I have been suffering from the same problem. I should try to repair my Saitek Throttle Quadrant under your guidance. .
Hope it helped! cheers
Thanks!! This was driving me crazy!
Thanks for video. I did everything, put all together but ended up with two lever doing nothing and one lever moving all three axes and swithing on some buttons at the same time. Any ideas?
Guys I ended up completely breaking my throttle quadrant while attempting to disassemble it. Indeed, the cleaning up the potentiometers is fairly simple, but some long overdried compound broke apart on the mainboard while I was uscrewing it, and one of the cables connecting the USB chord to the board snapped off. I tried soldering it back in but ended up causing a short-circuit and Windows detected dangerous voltage spikes when I tried plugging it back in. Sadly, I will be getting something else since I had been using mine for 2 weeks only. It came sealed in the box, but I suspect these units were produced years ago and the components inside are already worn out even before opening the box nowadays. I found dried glue, molten plastic and some kind of oil everywhere inside.
Oh Richard, very sorry to hear! This is a low-end cheap product… good yokes are very expensive, so a lot of care is needed not to brake anything. However, it seems your unit was at the end of its life. Hot glue and grease badly applied is normal in this units… as said, they are cheap bad quality items at the end…
Thanks for this! Gave my two saitek throttles a new lease of life. got 5 of 6 axis working again. (the 6th I yanked a wire so have to do some soldering on that one)
Good one
What solved my problem is to connect the USB on to 2.0 slot instead of a 3.0 one and recalibrate him. Greetz !
Very nice vid, thank you for taking the time to make it. Do you recommend any particular kind of glue to re-attach the pots? Can I use hot glue or would that melt anything?
Hi, hot glue will be fine. It is was was originally used to hold the potentiometers in place. Regards
Hi. Like the vid. I am dis-assembling to add tension to the throttle. Have removed all screws etc, but the 3 lever mechanisms just will not pull out. Any ideas please ? I just want the centre one out but have removed screws for all.
Hi, you mean the top cap? (Red or green?), pressure and should come out. The mechanism itself may be hot glued
@@BarcelonaAustinA35 Hi. Thanks for reply. I meant the internal lever mechanism. I eventually got it out buy pulling it with a pair of pliers !
NIce video, thanks, man! I have just applied this fix to my quadrant, works like a charm. Disassembly was a bit tricky though :)
Glad it helped!
This fixed worked great! however you should flash a warningto be super ultra mega gentle as those cables are stupid easy to break off.
Indeed, crappy material
Nice one! I would like to just replace the lever on one of my slider units. I wonder if there is a place where one could just buy replacement parts for this device. Any suggestions? Thanks for a helpful tutorial.
Thanks Jeff… hm, couldnt tell. I’m sure the potentiometers are easy to get. The rest, i’d go for 3d printing…. Good luck!
Amigo, o meu manche fica tremendo quando mantenho ele de lado por exemplo, tem alguma dica?
Thank you for your helpful guide, Can I use hand sanitizer(including alchol) instead of alchol?
Would not recommend that as it cointains more water and other compounds potentially corrosive for the resistance path…
@@BarcelonaAustinA35 Thank you for your answer, Can I use ethanol instead of alchol?
Yeah, ethanol is ethyl alcohol
@@BarcelonaAustinA35 oh great, thanks
I have exactly the same problem. Throttle make like a crazy also prop. Mixture work perfect
Hey! I have this same kind of problem, but it's one my yoke. When I pull or turn to the right i get this "bouncing", do you have any tips?
Hi, clean potentiometer track and change the controller unit. I have a vid on that
@@BarcelonaAustinA35 Thanks, I'll watch that😊
Hi! First of all, great video. Did everything, but when I was putting everything back in place the wires on the switch box pulled out... Can anybody tell me the correct sequence or send a picture or something? I tried taking screenshots of the video to find out the sequence but I couldn't. Thanks in advance for the help. Safe Flights
I just clean mine! Thanks for the video! Putting it back was a bit tricky. I would say to put back back first the red and blue axis. Then place the black cable on the side of the blue and then the black axis. Then board and the two pieces behind the axis. Next time I will get a magnetized screwdriver to make it easier to screw back everything. ah! also you may have to bend a bit the led!
My quadrant is not recognized. How could I convert the connection from ps2 to usb?
Hello. I installed the Logitech 64bit Driver Software for this Throttle, but now the Windows 10 Calibration Tool in the Game Control Manager is gone. There is only Test and Dead Zones, no Calibration anymore. I uninstalled the Software and the Throttle etc. and tried everything, but with no success. How can i get this back?
I made it, bouncing gone, but could not assemble it. Whenever I tried I had to use force to push the throttle trough the case and then cable began to break. The more I tried to fix and re-assemble the more broke. I ended up burning it completely.
Eu tenho o mesmo problema, mas com o joystick, ele está tremendo para todos os eixos, não interfere diretamente no voo, mas o joystick no simulador está tremendo, bem como as superfícies de controle. Abri para verificar se o potenciômetro seria o mesmo do quadrante de aceleração, mas é diferente e tenho medo de danificá-lo, você saberia como corrigir esse problema?
I have the same problem but with the joystick, it is shaking for all axes, it doesn't directly interfere with the flight, but the joystick in the simulator is shaking as well as the control surfaces. I opened it to check if the potentiometer would be the same as the acceleration quadrant, but it's different and I'm afraid of damaging it, would you know how to correct this problem?
@@raianluna9815 amigo, voce conseguiu resolver? estou com o mesmo problema
Could i have a word with whoever designed this thing?
Lol. Its rubbish
I dont have alcohol, what can I use instead?
Any other solvent, acetone?
I tried this but the controls still bounce and wiggle around when stationary. =(
Hi, please check the minute 2:11, it is the most critical. it happened to me as well the first time i cleaned it and mounted it back, it was worse than before lol. Make sure the contact point of the potentiometer is properly placed, maybe it is 180º off. Good luck!
@@BarcelonaAustinA35 I did make sure they were the right way. I also did it backwards the first time. When I tested it the controls were all over the place. After putting them the right way around it was about as good as it was before I started. It works but it's just giggly like before. Maybe a tiny bit better but overall not much improvement.
Is there maybe a better cleaner I could use ( I used 91% isopropyl) ? Or maybe I just didn't scrub hard enough but I didn't want to damage it. I thought I gave it a thorough scrub but who knows?
Hm. Well, these potentiometers are really crappy, dont expect much from them. You can try cleaning a bit more thoroughly, or replace the potentiometers. Could also be related to the controller board, the original one is 10 bit and not great. A leobodnar board is a good option. I have a video on that. Might help, although looks more related to the potentiometer. Regards
@@BarcelonaAustinA35 I have same problem with brand new throttle. Opend it and clean with different cleaners 5times and doing the same... Any idea what potentiometer it uses? Looking for a New one...
This is too risky and complicated for me !!
It's just some screws! You can do it!