I wanted to use my old throttle quadrant from my saitek Yoke, and another i was lent, along side my new Honeycomb Alpha Yoke. However both have a 6pin mini din connector (Ps/2). 

So I jumped online and found that most people suggest some pretty substantial modifications to achieve this, and considering I had borrow one of them, I wasn't very keen on doing these modifications.

So I set out to see exactly what was going on with that 6 pin connector. This including contacting support, to see if they could enlighten me on a few key things. To which I recieved the expected response "Good Luck!!"

Well, I'm not sure luck had anything to do with it, after alot of trail and error, and fine tunning, The end result is an interface board that allows me to connect 2x Ps2 Throttle Quadrants up to 1 USB port.

I'm planning on making up some detailed instructions for anyone that is technically minded to reproduced the interface, also maybe making up a few to allow me to send them out to the less technically minded.

Would this be something people would be interested in?

Edited November 6, 20223 yr by SirGr3mlin
.. fat thumbs.

I hate to bum you out but converters are already available -- for example see https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=2274.

3 hours ago, pgde said:

I hate to bum you out but converters are already available -- for example see https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=2274.

Yeah, that's a standard PS/2 convertor for PS/2 Devices which is also using the 6pin Mini Din Connector. But the Saitek / Logitech Yoke Throttle quadrant isn't a PS/2 device,  it simply uses the same connector. So what you have linked wouldn't work with the Throttle Quadrants sorry to say. Trust me I wish it was that easy!

Edited November 7, 20223 yr by SirGr3mlin

Bummer! Best of luck.....

On 11/6/2022 at 2:57 PM, SirGr3mlin said:

Would this be something people would be interested in?

Terrible answer, but yes contingent on price, which I think is going to be the biggest hurdle on such a small run.

Ernie

When I purchased a Fulcrum yoke about a year ago I managed to convert my Saitek "PS2" throttle quadrant to USB using an Arduino Leonardo microcontroller and the hardware info and code provided by Aviator7 in the thread at the link below (you need to page down a bit to see his posts #s 3,4,10,12). I made a "PS2"  to Arduino cable so I could simply plug the TQ's existing PS2 connector into the PS2 connector on the new cable so I didn't have to modify the TQ's cable in any way. Overall kind of a fun project IF you like doing this type of thing. If not, or you have two TQs to "convert", the nice board above by SirGr3mlin looks like the way to go.

https://forum.arduino.cc/t/reverse-engineer-game-controller-with-custom-ps2-interface/564550   

Al

Edited November 8, 20223 yr by ark

15 hours ago, ark said:

When I purchased a Fulcrum yoke about a year ago I managed to convert my Saitek "PS2" throttle quadrant to USB using an Arduino Leonardo microcontroller and the hardware info and code provided by Aviator7 in the thread at the link below (you need to page down a bit to see his posts #s 3,4,10,12). I made a "PS2"  to Arduino cable so I could simply plug the TQ's existing PS2 connector into the PS2 connector on the new cable so I didn't have to modify the TQ's cable in any way. Overall kind of a fun project IF you like doing this type of thing. If not, or you have two TQs to "convert", the nice board above by SirGr3mlin looks like the way to go.

https://forum.arduino.cc/t/reverse-engineer-game-controller-with-custom-ps2-interface/564550   

Al

Hahhaa brilliant! That was exactly what I was looking for! But everything I found involved ripping the guts out of the TQ.

Thanks for the link!

16 hours ago, airernie said:

Terrible answer, but yes contingent on price, which I think is going to be the biggest hurdle on such a small run.

Ernie

Yeah exactly cost in the Sim world is crazy. That's why I was gonna spend some time writing up a everything so people could if they wanted DIY. But then being that simming is already so expensive, I was thinking, as long a i make sure parts and shipping were covered.