Thread: Anyone have any leads on the steering wheel controller that uses a 15 pin connector?
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Re: Anyone have any leads on the steering wheel controller that uses a 15 pin connect
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Originally Posted by windell747 View Post
Hi, I was looking at the operater interface documentation and it said that only 100K potentiometers can be used on the ports. I just bought a steering wheel and after tearing it apart I realized that it had a 10K pot and not a 100K pot. Can I still use this?

I was thinking that just to be safe I would like to buy a wheel that already uses 100K pots. Do any of you have any leads?

Thanks,
Windell
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You can use these but you'll have to do some scaling to get the full range of the controller. (Look in the Chicklet documentation, they give a routine for scaling that you can add to your program).
Was this a USB and did you take out an interface board? It was probably set up to give full range for 10k potentiometers. The best solution would be to find replacement 100K potentiometers and replace the 10Ks.
A simple test would be to wire it up, plug it into the OI, setup dash board to read the OI and see what values you get.

good luck

Steve