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Just Got A Honeycomb Alpha Yoke. It's unusable.

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42 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Opening the case may invalidate the warranty.

Sure, Ray. But this is the only alternative to returning the yoke to the shop. 

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2 minutes ago, SergeyPe said:

Sure, Ray. But this is the only alternative to returning the yoke to the shop. 

It's your call. Have you contacted Honeycomb? They have a presence on Facebook. I can remember how stiff the elevator axis was when I tried it at Cosford show in 2018. I thought they would have adapted it.

My Fulcrum requires effort eapecially at the end of the travel but that's how these things work when you don't have hydraulics to assist.

Ray (Cheshire, England).

System: P3D v5.3HF2, Intel i9-13900K, MSI 4090 GAMING X TRIO 24G, Crucial T700 4Tb M.2 SSD, Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero, 32Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000Mhz RAM, Win 11 Pro 64-bit, BenQ PD3200U 32” UHD monitor, Fulcrum One yoke, Fulcrum Throttle Quadrant.

Cheadle Hulme Weather website.

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I woudl call Tech Support and have the unit repaired for you.  Always go through tech support first!

 

 

Dave Hodges

 

System Specs:  I9-13900KF, NVIDIA 4070TI, Quest 3, Multiple Displays, Lots of TERRIFIC friends, 3 cats, and a wonderfully stubborn wife.

Before calling tech support, is it possible for you to measure the amount of force needed on your yoke?
Others have stated that it should be around 5lb. If it is substantially more, you have a good argument that your yoke is indeed faulty and should be repaired/replaced.

If it proves to be correct, than this yoke might simply not be for you, and you can try to return it, sell it or modify it.

My yoke (also a Fulcrum) needs quite quite a bit of force to pull fully back. During normal operation of an aircraft there is no need to do that. If you need to pull thát much on the yoke, in reality or not, something is not right I think.

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17 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

It's your call.

Luckily not mine- I'm on a Fulcrum😀.

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40 minutes ago, SergeyPe said:

Luckily not mine- I'm on a Fulcrum😀.

Sorry about that. Quoted the wrong post.

Ray (Cheshire, England).

System: P3D v5.3HF2, Intel i9-13900K, MSI 4090 GAMING X TRIO 24G, Crucial T700 4Tb M.2 SSD, Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero, 32Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000Mhz RAM, Win 11 Pro 64-bit, BenQ PD3200U 32” UHD monitor, Fulcrum One yoke, Fulcrum Throttle Quadrant.

Cheadle Hulme Weather website.

chlive.php

9 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Sorry about that. Quoted the wrong post.

No problem😀.

I ordered one in December and well just got it out of the box 🙂

Anyway.... It is "strong" even compared to my ACE 737 Yoke... And well compared to a Saitek Cessna Yoke I have that is flimsy...

I just used a "bag scale" to pull it and at about 3lbs it starts to move.. about 5-7 it is almost full back and at 9lbs it is full deflection...

Compared to other yokes in MSFS where I have to crank Sensitivity on the Elevator Axis to like -60 and Rudders to -80....  Well maybe this is why 🙂 since the default of the honeycomb is linear and thus small movements are small with this heavy pull.....  The travel is not much and with the heavy pull it would seem like you have a larger range.  But yes for the price it is pretty good...It is just never going to feel like a the real thing to cover the wide range..

Now a Brunner 🙂 ... I guess that would be ones best bet to get full feeling....

Les O'Reilly

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