X-axis going wild

Ladies and Gentleman,

my VKB Gunfighter has a serious issue with the x-axis. Smooth physical deflections of the stick lead to heavy oscillations/jumping in the output which makes flying basically impossible.

It is only the x-axis that is affected. The y-axis is fine. I found in the VKB forum a few threads of people with the very same issue.

So far I tried a new firmware, currently running v1.960 (I'm using the TM Warthog stick) and re-calibrating several times. All to no avail unfortunately.

Is there anything else I can do to fix this?

Thanks!

I have 2 and have seen this behaviour in both of mine the mobile one does it all the time but I find if I move it around a lot before I start it seems to settle down and then is fine for my Flying. The permanent one exhibited this behaviour once. I exercised it for a couple of minutes did a recalibration and it's been fine since. If after exercising it and doing a recalibration you can't get it to settle down I would video the problem and send it to VKB the x-axis board is pretty easy to replace as my very 1st one went out completely.

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I had a similar behavior of my Gunfighter and wiggling it about a lot also made it better after a while.

Pretty much looked like in the first post in the thread below and the solution in the second post solved it for me so far.

http://forum.vkb-sim.pro/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=3235

Thanks for that I will try that on my mobile base .

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Thanks guys! I'll try to reconnect the plug - it looks exactly the same for me as in the post you quote, ams999. I'll report back. Good luck to you as well WindyTX!

Alright, looks like I'm back in the game. I unplugged and re-plugged every connector I could get hold of. So far it's looking good. X-axis is smooth again. Hopefully, the issue is gone for good.

Well if it starts again We now know how to fix it

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Are females allowed to comment ;)

Are females allowed to comment ;)

Me culpa, adjusted the first post :D

Mine consistently does the same thing. Cycling it through the axises a couple times settles it down. Makes me think it's a calibration issue.

Sounds like this is a pretty common problem I have to exercise my x axis a lot and sometimes it's still twitchy even with pulling the plug and re inserting it.

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I also have a WH grip on a VKB base, a little while ago after numerous unsuccessful attempts at cleaning connections and rebooting the firmware, I walked the firmware back to the version that I got when I first had the stick working and it instantly settled down perfectly. Prior to that I had to re-calibrate once or twice every DCS session.

Issue came back for a 4th time for me last night. C'mon VKB, my $100 rudder pedals have had no issues for 7 years

This is somewhat of an... ahem... ''annoying'' issue. It does force a preflight controls check, though )) of course, if you spawn in air you're screeeeewed

Have you tried adjusting dry clutch to see if this changes anything? I haven’t had any problem with mine but I only use it occasionally.

I've ever met such problem, and sloved it by loosing the screw of dry clutch.

i have been having the same issue and i know of 2 other guys with exactly the same issue , the problem happens only to the X-Axis it twitches to far right once i touch the X-Axis even if i dont deflect it that far . i found that the reason behind it and i could be wrong is the the plug for the X axis gets strained by the movement of the gimbal , If you take the gimbal out and move the stick around you will see what i mean , so far i re seated the plug back in its position and it reduced the issue to almost none for a while till it came back again last week i had to re seat it again

Every few months or so, I will have an axis get wonky, or sometimes just disappear, in my Gunfighter Pro Mk I with MCG Pro grip. Sometimes even some buttons disappear.

All I have to do is remove the stick with extension from the base, then re-insert it , and all is well again. Not sure why that happens, and it is not very often at all, but usually after a few months it will do it again.

It happened again yesterday, I loaded up a fight and my Y axis was all messed up - took off and the plane entered a hard bank to left and had to hold practically

full right to try and keep it level. Exited the game and took a look, sure enough it had happened again. Brake axis also had completely disappeared.

Thankfully it only happens rarely, probably a couple of times a year.

I also occasionally get this. It's pretty disappointing. I usually have to recalibrate to fix it.

Interesting solutions. I'll try each of them, as it seems to be worsening for me

Got the exact same problem, resolved by opening the base, unplugging and re-plugging the x-axis connector, easy as that . Perhaps it comes loose with time due to the internal movements.

I had this when it was new. Made a thread about it on the vkb forums. A cable was loose in the connector, lots of movement there so no surprise. Now i see it is a common thing.

And here we go again :( Everything was fine since I re-plugged the connectors. Now two months later the issue starts to come back. Not yet as pronounced but I reckon that will will come.

Anyone opened a support ticked about this issue or can tell me the best way to do it? Is anyone from VKB following these forums and make a comment on this problem?

This is not really what I expected from such a high quality piece of hardware.

Is anyone from VKB following these forums and make a comment on this problem?

Please get registered at VKB home forum, and check out these guidelines.

Then post a support request, and help will come.

Please get registered at VKB home forum, and check out these guidelines.

Then post a support request, and help will come.

Roger, wilco :thumbup:

For now, I did the un-plug & re-plug trick and it solved it again - for now. But I reckon this gives me just another two-three months before I have to do it again.

Still a great product. You have any idea what is causing this issue? Only logical explanation I have is that due to the movement, some connectors get slightly loose as others have mentioned already. But that is just a guess, of course.