Anyone ever had a problem with their rudder pedals, where pushing one pedal also activated its toe-brake? (with heels on the floor, definitely not moving the actual toe-brake)

I have Ruddo+ pedals from Virtual Fly, which have worked great for several months. "Suddenly" they've become unusable: 

Whenever I touch the left rudder-pedal, it activates the left toe-brake completely and immediately. The right pedal seems to work as expected.

I've tried a few solutions, like unplugging it, re-calibrating it in the VF software, and recalibrating it in Windows. No matter what I do, the left pedal activates the left toe-brake 100%, even with my heels on the floor and no touch of the actual toe-brake. 

This is even without MSFS launched, just looking at the Windows calibration window. As such I'm fairly sure that it's not connected to some messed up key-bindings.

The device used to worked perfectly, but one day it started doing this. I'm not aware of anything external that could have triggered it.

Here's a video of the issue:

https://www.dropbox.com/l/scl/AAB9XvfPyo3Ff6CNfMNrPXqpHzLVdz3ci7o

 

2 hours ago, TheisSondergaard said:

Anyone ever had a problem with their rudder pedals, where pushing one pedal also activated its toe-brake? (with heels on the floor, definitely not moving the actual toe-brake)

Is the toe brake axis after getting reversed maybe? If that was the case then when as soon as MSFS reads the state of the brake position it would apply full brakes when you had the toe brakes not pressed and would release them if you pressed the toe brakes fully forward. There's an option in the axis settings in MSFS to reverse the input which would fix this particular issue. 

@Tektolnes Thanks, I can double-check, if there's something related to reversing the axis. But like I said, the toe-brake activates even without MSFS or other software running. I can see it directly in the Windows device management interface, if I try to calibrate the peripheral and then look at the inputs.

2 minutes ago, TheisSondergaard said:

 Thanks, I can double-check, if there's something related to reversing the axis. But like I said, the toe-brake activates even without MSFS or other software running. I can see it directly in the Windows device management interface, if I try to calibrate the peripheral and then look at the inputs.

Sorry my bad - had just read it quickly. Still might be worth checking if there's some reverse axis option in the VF software settings that somehow got triggered. Hopefully it turns out to be something like that as otherwise it sounds like something a bit more serious has gone wrong and you'd probably be better contacting VF support.

Thanks. Just got a reply from VF support who will arrange a return-label to get them checked at their facilities. Great service, but probably leaves me without pedals for several weeks.... 😞

There's a utility called DIView on the Leo Bodnar website that allows you to see the raw data coming off your joystick and other input devices. 

Often looking at the data coming right off the axes will tell you if you have a controller (e.g. hardware) issue, or (more likely) an axis assignment/calibration problem.

The virtual fly Guys will take good care of you. I had that issue on a set of crosswind pedals it was just a bad wire. I now have ruddos could never go back.

Thanks for all the input. The VF team replaced the brake sensor and say that this fixed the problem. Enroute back to my place now 🙂

On 6/30/2021 at 11:40 AM, TheisSondergaard said:

Thanks for all the input. The VF team replaced the brake sensor and say that this fixed the problem. Enroute back to my place now 🙂

Let me know how you get on as I have the same pedals and exactly the same issue..started all of a sudden..

 

Dave

Did it fix the problem?