clubsport clutch/gas deadzone adjustment

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Inverted my clubsports yesterday and now I have a deadzone on gas pedal the size of Texas. The gas pedal used to be clutch pedal and I have no shifter at the moment so I had no idea it had a deadzone that big. Is there any way to adjust the deadzone?

The only thing I can think of - rotate the shaft with a magnet on it. However, gas does go to 100% with pedal fully depressed, so I'm not sure it still would do that if I try to rotate the shaft with a magnet. Anybody ever tried it?

Any other options for me to fix? I'm afraid swapping pots is not gonna be feasible since old gas pot (now plugged into clutch slot on PCB) won't have the wire long enough...

Thanks!
 
Anyone?

Is clutch deadzone supposed to be that large or mine wasn't the way it was supposed to be to begin with?
 
Could be the magnet has moved during the process. It's the right way in, it just hasn't lined up properly I think. Try taking it out and make sure the hole for the screw points towards the screw hole and then tighten it down again. See if that makes a difference.
 
^ I haven't taken the new gas/old clutch pedal apart during inversion, just swapped the connectors. So I'm not 100% clear what you're talking about. You mean the screw that secures the medal rod (that has a magnet on one end), and the rod itself has a hole for this screw?

At this point I'm not sure what I'm seeing is not a feature. It would make sense to me if the pot on the original clutch was set-up to 'grab' somewhere mid-way of the pedal travel. So how large is clutch deadzone on your CSPs?
 
The pot should read the full travel of the pedal. If theres a deadzone on the clutch its handled in game.
 
^thnx. Ok, it sounds like the pot is bad. Cause it goes to 100% with pedal fully depressed, so I doubt it is mis-aligned.
 
There are no potentiometers in the CSP. So you will never get a pot readout from a set of CSPs. Lol

What I mean is the magnetic rod that is in one of the hole you see on the side of the pedal. There is an Allen key type screw that holds it in place. In the megnetic rod there is a hole cut out for the screw to fall into so the rod is aligned properly with the magnetic sensor on the side.
Maybe the screw got loose somehow and the rod moved. I dunno. But just check if that is positioned well.
 
Hall-effect sensor equivalent of a pot, whatever. Those screws are tight and in proper positions.
 
Ok, did a few things:
1) Recorded a video of pedal application against windows readout of sensor, for the purposes of contacting support.
2) Tried rotating metal rod in the pedal so that deadzone is minimized, hoping that the pedal would self-calibrate. Didn't work. As expected, I can get close to zero dead zone, but the pedal read-out goes to 100% 1/3 of the way through the travel and stays there. Might not be a bad thing for a clutch, but the wire from this sensor won't reach to the PCB from inverted "clutch" pedal.
3) Swapped old 'gas' sensor into inverted gas pedal. Works like it used to/supposed to. Which also means magnetic rod position in former clutch pedal/now gas pedal is/was fine.

Gonna go write to the Fanatec support now. Gonna see for myself how bad is it.
 
Registered to say this.

I had the exact same problem except I had it out of the box. After several emails Fanatec finally decided to ship me a new sensor. It took approx 3 weeks to show up here. In the meantime, I had disassembled and reassembled the CSPs many times to try out the different springs from the tuning kit, and the problem fixed itself. Eh, I now have a spare hall sensor just in case.

Terrible customer support.
 
I'd say good customer support. Maybe a cable wasn't plugged in right, so the sensor didn't work properly. They could have done a better diagnosis, however they went the expensive way and send you a new sensor for free. Which meant you had to disconnect the old one and connect the new one again. Of which you would have made sure that the connection was sitting in its fitting properly. In the end you solved the bad connection yourself by disassembling and reassembling the CSP, which leaves you with a free spare part.

I'd say nothing to complain about, mate. ;)
 
Sure, if by good you mean 2 weeks delay after my first email, 1 weeks delay after my first reply, and then 3 weeks to finally get the replacement part. Also, it didn't take 3 weeks to arrive here (it was a 3 days delivery from DHL), it took them 3 weeks to actually pack it and ship it to me, after support told me they would ship me a new sensor.

Yeah, nothing to complain about except having a nice, if a little unwieldy, 200 euro paperweight for a month and half.
 
Whenever I see that an email hasn't been replied to it's often (often... not always) because the customer wasn't giving the information they were asking for so they can respond fast.

Also I thought you said you were fiddling around with the CSP while you waited and it started to work again. So yeah... a month I agree to that, but not that other half.
 
Perhaps, but I did actually give all the requested information. And yes, you're right, I actually got it to work on my own so it was closer to a month. That doesn't make it any better.

I had a problem with my G27 after a year of use. Contacted them through support, it took barely a week to get a new wheel. I got the tracking mail from UPS before I even got the return number from Logitech. I'm pretty sure some people have horror stories to share about Logitech's tech support, though, and they'd be right to call it terrible support when they got terrible support.

I got terrible support from Fanatec, I call it terrible support from Fanatec. Here you are claiming it's good support and it's my fault because I didn't send the correct information or some bull. Even after they got all the information they needed it still took them three weeks to ship me the hall effect sensor. That is not acceptable.
 
Meh, I got a reply next business day, requesting me to confirm that my shipping address was still the same as in the invoice I attached. Sensors were on the way the next day. For some reason they sent me two of those. Which came in handy, cause I didn't have to re-locate sensors, just attach one with the longer wire.

And Logitech support took a week to provide a meaningful reply to my inquiry about g27 pedals. By the time they replied I've sold my g27 already.
 
Heh... so in the end it's back to the old sayings I guess... "grass is always greener on the other side" and "here you leave some, there you might find some" (last one is a Dutch saying ish meaning that for example you leave one company due to troubles, but you wont know what you get with the next"
 

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