Jeesus Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 Dear Fellow Simulator Enthusiasts! :helpsmilie: I bought my Hotas Warthog a few days ago and I love(d) every aspect of it, until today when the switches on the right throttle control just died in a weird way. There's a video about what happens. I would appreciate any ideas and suggestions about it. Thanks TrailBlazer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cichlidfan Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 I would return it, to the place you bought it, for replacement. It may be an easy fix but I would just return it. ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero, i7-6700K, Noctua NH-D14 Cooler, Crucial 32GB DDR4 2133, Samsung 950 Pro NVMe 256GB, Samsung EVO 250GB & 500GB SSD, 2TB Caviar Black, Zotac GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme 8GB, Corsair HX1000i, Phillips BDM4065UC 40" 4k monitor, VX2258 TouchScreen, TIR 5 w/ProClip, TM Warthog, VKB Gladiator Pro, Saitek X56, et. al., MFG Crosswind Pedals #1199, VolairSim Pit, Rift CV1 :thumbup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeesus Posted July 19, 2013 Author Share Posted July 19, 2013 I would return it, to the place you bought it, for replacement. It may be an easy fix but I would just return it. Yeah I guess you're right since it's a recent purchase...I'm just so pissed off about it :( TrailBlazer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cichlidfan Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 Yeah I guess you're right since it's a recent purchase...I'm just so pissed off about it :( I get it, especially since it is so cool ;) but at that price, make it someone else's problem. ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero, i7-6700K, Noctua NH-D14 Cooler, Crucial 32GB DDR4 2133, Samsung 950 Pro NVMe 256GB, Samsung EVO 250GB & 500GB SSD, 2TB Caviar Black, Zotac GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme 8GB, Corsair HX1000i, Phillips BDM4065UC 40" 4k monitor, VX2258 TouchScreen, TIR 5 w/ProClip, TM Warthog, VKB Gladiator Pro, Saitek X56, et. al., MFG Crosswind Pedals #1199, VolairSim Pit, Rift CV1 :thumbup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeesus Posted July 19, 2013 Author Share Posted July 19, 2013 I get it, especially since it is so cool ;) but at that price, make it someone else's problem. I see your specs you're also a "happy owner", have you ever had any issues about yours? TrailBlazer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cichlidfan Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 So far, everything has been good. Nearly two years. On a related subject, I did have a defective 'right out of the box' Cougar MFD once. I can't recall why I dealt with Thrustmaster directly but I did, and they took care of it fairly quickly. ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero, i7-6700K, Noctua NH-D14 Cooler, Crucial 32GB DDR4 2133, Samsung 950 Pro NVMe 256GB, Samsung EVO 250GB & 500GB SSD, 2TB Caviar Black, Zotac GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme 8GB, Corsair HX1000i, Phillips BDM4065UC 40" 4k monitor, VX2258 TouchScreen, TIR 5 w/ProClip, TM Warthog, VKB Gladiator Pro, Saitek X56, et. al., MFG Crosswind Pedals #1199, VolairSim Pit, Rift CV1 :thumbup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 One day my slew nipple stopped working. Tried a restart and was still not working so I started to panic. I unplugged the throttle from its USB port, plugged it back in and it has worked fine ever since. TM Warthog HOTAS is the only stick I would use, it's awesome. As someone who works in the tech field, it has always amazed me how so many strange issues like this are solved by simply unplugging the USB device and plugging it back in. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Nvidia GTX Titan Pascal - i7 6700K - 960 Pro 512GB NVMe SSD - 32GB DDR4 Corsair - Corsair PSU - Saitek x52 Pro - Custom FreeTrack IR Setup - iControl for DCS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay43 Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 While its still under warranty return it for replacement its just to expensive to open up your self and start fiddling around inside. Must be a bridged contact or bad ground I would think or a wire has just fallen off somewhere. I feel your pain though my pinkie switch on my left throttle suddenly became all stiff and would not work, and then my wife confesed that she DROPPED it WHAT how well you never told me it was heavy I was just dusting your pit as you call it for you and it picked it up without realising how heavy it was and lost my grip. Grrrrr I told you to never touch anything around my pit area I will deal with it. Took it apart and inside the switch there are these ever so tiny pins with a small ball of ceramic on them which sit on top of a metal rocker so the current doesn't travel through the ceramic and up the pin to the surface of the switch, the pin had bent so I straightened it out popped it all back together and its worked ever since. If it was the right throttle I would've bothered to much going on there with switches and hats to scary for me. Eagles may soar high but weasel's don't get sucked into jet engines. System Spec. Monitors: Samsung 570DX & Rift CV1 Mobo: MSI Godlike gaming X-99A CPU: Intel i7 5930K @ 3.50Ghz RAM: 32gb GPU: EVGA Nvidia GTX 980Ti VR Ready Cooling: Predator 360 Power Supply: OCZ ZX Series 80 Plus Gold Drives: Samsung SSD's 1tb, 500g plus others with OS Win10 64 bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeesus Posted July 20, 2013 Author Share Posted July 20, 2013 As someone who works in the tech field, it has always amazed me how so many strange issues like this are solved by simply unplugging the USB device and plugging it back in. That's a true statement, but I tried to unplug-replug, reinstall drivers, firmware update and even the bootloader installation so this could only be a hardware issue, most probably something mentioned in the previous post. I contacted my seller a few minutes ago ans asked for a replacement. Thanks for the feedback however :) Cheers TrailBlazer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBillKelsoe Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 send it back IMMEDIATELY!!! I would order a replacement every month with this money AWAITING ED NEW DAMAGE MODEL IMPLEMENTATION FOR WW2 BIRDS Fat T is above, thin T is below. Long T is faster, Short T is slower. Open triangle is AWACS, closed triangle is your own sensors. Double dash is friendly, Single dash is enemy. Circle is friendly. Strobe is jammer. Strobe to dash is under 35 km. HDD is 7 times range key. Radar to 160 km, IRST to 10 km. Stay low, but never slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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