TM Warthog Dual Throttle skewed/uneven

Throttles are skewed mid-range (connected). See pic. Used calibration program a couple times. Still skewed. Throttles may/probably always been skewed (since I unpacked them year ago). I've flown almost exclusively Warbirds so I've never had a reason to look at this before.

Is this normal? Should I complain to Thrustmaster? Is it fixable?

7538 / 7436 * 100 = 101.37. They differ by 1.37 %.

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I first noticed it because the Su-33 rpm gauges were visibly uneven. So it is not insignificant. This angers me a bit. I expected better.

They're never going to have the exact same reading at the same position but it should be closer than that.

At 50% throttle with the throttle locked together my warthog reads

8172

8140

So yeah I'd at least talk to TM. Hopefully you're within the warranty period.

I wonder if I risk screwing something up if I try to fool the calibrating program by not fully moving one of the levers. Shouldn't be risky I think. Surely the calibrate program must be tolerant for user mistakes. Idea would be to either reduce or increase the "gain" of one of the levers.

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I filmed moving:

-left lever back and forth fully

followed by

-right lever fully back and forth

First, left (upper) should lead and then right (lower) should lead. Not quite what happens. How synced they are depends which lever I pull on and in which direction. For best sync, to increase I should push the left, but to decrease I should pull the right.

How about reducing the rt one iirc using dcs axis tune so they are very similar throughout the range from cut off to an

Same problem here. And same as you I mostly fly Warbrd so never really bothered. Someone who fly jet asked me if I had idea to fix that problem recently. The best I could think of was to add a slight curve (EXTREMELY small curve) to one of the throttle axis.

I did that using joystick Gremlin.

Then I adapted the idea to another fix/improvement I do for the Warthog throttle.

I can't think of a better solution sadly. I've read similar issue on the Virpil throttle.

I´m not sure about that, but isn´t there some kind of "deep calibration" software on the TM support that allows you to zero all axis if the TARGET/windows calibration doesn´t help anymore? I think i read about that some time ago on SimHQ...

if you launch the tm calibration tool, DON'T FORGET TO DO "INSIDE" the file wich program located.....because the program need that. good luck !

I´m not sure about that, but isn´t there some kind of "deep calibration" software on the TM support that allows you to zero all axis if the TARGET/windows calibration doesn´t help anymore? I think i read about that some time ago on SimHQ...

Yes absolutely, there is a calibration program. Just contact TM support. I don't want to share it as I don't recall the licensing on it. They use it as part of production as each piece of hardware is different.

The problems reported here look like they will be resolved with calibration.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7ogb522axno2akn/HW_Stick%20Calibration_V1.13.exe?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ca4sgzfrprayh42/Throttle%20Warthog%20Calibration%20%28V1.07%29.exe?dl=0