4 minutes ago, vonmar said:

 

My CH Pedals purchased August 2011 started to show signs of POT wear in in 2022 (not bad almost 11 years old).

So I purchased new pedals August 2022 and put them on my daily use WIN11 PC plug and play no problems.

Put the old Pedals on my newer WIN11 PC (used for testing MSFS2020 second copy) plug and play working ok for now.
If they get real bad I will replace them or possibly replace the pots.

Years ago it was difficult to find the pots, but now this company sells them.  https://www.digikey.ch/en/products/detail/ch-products/REPPOT604/9490875

6 minutes ago, vonmar said:

 

My CH Pedals purchased August 2011 started to show signs of POT wear in in 2022 (not bad almost 11 years old). 

Oh they are a nice piece of kit all right which you can use for years. I had a serial (yes, I am that old) and an USB pairs. I loved them. Now, my present MFG is in another league...   

My set is about 4 years old now, still working great.

Default MSFS planes are all over the place when it comes to taxi, takeoff. There's no magic setting so don't feel like you're making a mistake if you go in and create a profile for any aircraft as needed. Small dead zone, reduce the sensitivity slowly until you find a setup that works for you. These pedals have springs that also wear over time.

In comparison the better payware planes (Kodiak, Analog King Air) needed no changes at all. I run them with my "standard" pedals profile that has only tiny changes from default.

Giving them a good cleaning now and then doesn't hurt either. I just use a can of compressed air in the slide gaps.

Just now, Dominique_K said:

Oh they are a nice piece of kit all right which you can use for years. I had a serial (yes, I am that old) and an USB pairs. I loved them. Now, my present MFG is in another league...   

I got the Logitech Pro Pedals now. Big problem was that they slid around on my carpet much more than the CH Pedals. I fixed that by getting a 2x2 piece of 1/2 plywood at home depot and mounting them to the plywood with screws. Now they don't move at all. 

Honestly, MSFS2020 can just be super twitchy and nervous compared to other sims.  I can never fully dial it out, and some planes are way worse than others.  My hardware is older (I have an ancient set of CH Pedals too) but they work fine in other sims. 

Sometimes planes can feel more like an F-16 than a Cessna 172.  You can mess around with sensitivities and dial a lot of it out, but honestly I've never made it go away.  I don't know if investing in the higher end stuff would be a solution.

3 minutes ago, kerosene31 said:

Honestly, MSFS2020 can just be super twitchy and nervous compared to other sims.  I can never fully dial it out, and some planes are way worse than others.  My hardware is older (I have an ancient set of CH Pedals too) but they work fine in other sims. 

Sometimes planes can feel more like an F-16 than a Cessna 172.  You can mess around with sensitivities and dial a lot of it out, but honestly I've never made it go away.  I don't know if investing in the higher end stuff would be a solution.

Might be your pedals or aircraft. I have about 9 payware aircraft, and none are twitchy after I adjusted sensitivity on the rudder . 

On 2/19/2023 at 9:16 AM, Dominique_K said:

After ditching my last pair  of CH pedals, I went for a Hall sensors equipped pair. I do not regret it. 

Can you give me the purchase info?

On 2/19/2023 at 10:32 AM, Bobsk8 said:

Years ago it was difficult to find the pots, but now this company sells them.  https://www.digikey.ch/en/products/detail/ch-products/REPPOT604/9490875

Are there any USA dealers that sell this potentiometer? It would probably take weeks to ship to the USA.
 

Thanks!

30 minutes ago, Skyseek said:

Are there any USA dealers that sell this potentiometer? It would probably take weeks to ship to the USA.
 

Thanks!

Digikey is a US retailer. The link is for the Swiss version of their web site, but when I put the listed part number into the search box at the US web site https://www.digikey.com the same part comes up with 339 units listed in stock.

1 hour ago, Skyseek said:

Are there any USA dealers that sell this potentiometer? It would probably take weeks to ship to the USA.
 

Thanks!

What @JRBarrett said.  I'm on the USA East Coast and ordered from DigiKey last Sunday, the box arrived today with 4 new potentiometers as spares and one can of DeOxit (for some other projects) today.  Stupidly I chose FedEx Ground for shipping and USPS would have got them here quicker.  Installation took all of 10 minutes and my throttle is smooth as silk, the pedals would be easy as well. No soldering since CH uses handy little connectors that can be carefully eased off the pots with a small flat-blade screwdriver.

Edited February 27, 20233 yr by Stoopy

2 hours ago, JRBarrett said:

Digikey is a US retailer. The link is for the Swiss version of their web site, but when I put the listed part number into the search box at the US web site https://www.digikey.com the same part comes up with 339 units listed in stock.

Thank you so much for the information!

Seriously?  After needing to put CD jewel cases under the forward sde of the pedals during calibration, that in perhaps 2004, I moved on to I believe TM pedals.  From there in about 2008 I transitioned to Saitek Pro Cessna pedals.  Two years ago I found total bliss with Crosswinds.  19 years since CH?  What is really the question here?  The heck with pots.  Are jewel cases even still available?  On eBay perhaps?

Let me see if I still have my original FF back joystick.... You know, original 9-pin serial port....

Edited February 27, 20233 yr by fppilot

I threw my last set in the trash, lol.  I used to like them and the first set lasted forever.  This second set would create noise and pull aircraft to one side.  It was really annoying and I couldn't seem to fix it.  I bought the ThrustMaster TFRP pedals, but to be honest they're only slightly better in terms of overall use.  They work fine, but are sensitive and aren't too tweakable.  Adjusting the sensitivity doesn't do much. 

I'm considering the Thrustmaster TRP pedals, which are much more money.  I'm curious as to whether they would be better.  I used to use the CH Yoke and had tweaked it a lot to my linking.  Then I got the Thrustmaster Boeing Yoke.  OMG what a huge difference!!  That terrible sensitivity in the CH Yoke that made banking impossible without diving is a thing of the past.  I can actually maneuver the plane and not struggle. 

1 hour ago, fppilot said:

Seriously?  After needing to put CD jewel cases under the forward sde of the pedals during calibration, that in perhaps 2004, I moved on to I believe TM pedals.  From there in about 2008 I transitioned to Saitek Pro Cessna pedals.  Two years ago I found total bliss with Crosswinds.  19 years since CH?  What is really the question here?  The heck with pots.  Are jewel cases even still available?  On eBay perhaps?

Let me see if I still have my original FF back joystick.... You know, original 9-pin serial port....

Oh sure you kids and your loud rock-roll music and magic magnetic hall effect rudder pedals and healing crystals shaped like pyramids.  Voodoo new wave nonsense, I say!  Give me real hardware I can see and trust - they'll get my potentiometers and Mallory electrolytic capacitors and 6V6 vacuum tubes when they can pry them from my cold dead arthritic fingers!   😁

Edited February 27, 20233 yr by Stoopy

1 hour ago, Stoopy said:

they'll get my potentiometers and Mallory electrolytic capacitors and 6V6 vacuum tubes when they can pry them from my cold dead arthritic fingers!   😁

nah ...  6L6s or EL34s are the go - higher anode voltage ( EL34 valves are not to be confused with L34 valves which are car parts for 1970's small block Chevy powered V8 race cars here in Australia).

 

In terms of CH pedals, I  recall they snapped the little bitty thin brake pedal wires all the time and they were a PITA to disassemble to fix it.