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lalmat
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Driving Force GT - Question about the original monting of Heatcliff optical encoder

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Hi,

 

I just receive a Driving Force GT as a Gift from Amazon. The Wheel doesn't work at all even if all joystick's button works fine. So as I don't spend any money I decided to figure out what's going wrong. The clue was : Bad initialization, the wheel seems to block, no roll from one side to the other.

 

I found some tutorials about how to disassemble logitech's wheel and here is what I found (don't do that if you wan't to keep your warranty !) :

 

dfgt-optical-encoder.jpg

 

So, ok... I used to made some electronics when I was younger and I have some doubts about this PCB... IMHO the receiver is realy misplaced to read the coding wheel signals...

 

If so, this may explain why a lot of DFGT don't work when they're just out of the box.

 

Am I right ?

Thanks.