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1. You don't need a "usb splitter". They don't need to be plugged into the
same USB port. They don't even need to be plugged into the same kind (USB
1.1 or USB 2.0) port. If you don't have any vacant ports, you can either
unplug something you're not using at the moment ("hot-swapping" is sort of
the point of USB) or buy a USB hub. A USB hub plugs into a USB port and
allows you to plug a bunch more USB things into, effectively expanding the
number of ports you can have. Theoretically, I think you can have 256 USB
ports
So, plug the joystick into one USB port and the rudder pedals into another.
The computer will straighten it out.
As for using your kids gas and brake pedal for rudder pedals, if you see
them in the drop down box in the MSFS2004 / Settings / Joystick Assignments
/ Axes area, feel free to give it a try. You won't break anything. If it
works, fine, if not then buy some USB rudder pedals.
That being said, you'll find there are differences between rudder pedals and
the Gas / Brake pedal for a driving controller. Push on the gas pedal and
you'll see the brake pedal doesn't move (and vice versa). Also, gas and
brake pedals normally involve more of a rotating the foot around the ankle
joint then pushing the whole pedal forward (I'm describing computer
peripherals here, not the actual operation of a car). I don't own one
anymore, but if I recall correctly they were seen by the computer as
separate axes, not one axis being turned right or left. Rudder pedals are
seen as one axis (potentiometer) being turned right or left.
The CH Pro Pedals I use can be used as Gas / Brake Pedals. It involves a
setting in the software (control panel, I think or else the CH manager
software) and using little plastic spacers that are provided with the pedals
to eliminate the push / pull sympathetic movement between the pedals.
Essentially, the toe brake axes become the gas and brake pedals. I guess
that function comes in most handy for our friends who use a flight yoke to
control their planes and also like driving sims.
Simply speaking... you're making this much more complicated than it is with
trying to find someplace to plug the pedals into the stick and worrying
about them using the same USB port. Just plug them both in to whatever USB
ports you have available and set them up in the game's settings. You'll
find every single joystick type thing you have plugged into the computer in
that dropdown box. If it shows up in the "game controllers" area off the
control panel, it will show up there and you can assign buttons and axes
from it to your game. The only wrinkle is that if the gas and brake pedal
are separate axes (and I suspect they are).
Or... (see below)
"Flight Sim newbie" <cessnaskyhawk172@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1108795923.818309.119010@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Jay Williams kindly wrote:
>> ... the original logitech Wingman Force (with the USB & serial port)
>> was designed to work with a game port set of rudder pedals.
>> No subsequent one has been so designed, to my knowledge.
>>
>> BUT that doesn't mean you can't use rudder pedals with it.
>> Plug some rudder pedals in (I recommend the CH Pro Pedals,
>> in USB flavor... You'll love the toe brakes).
>
> Thank you very much Jay for your time & patience and effort to help.
> Do I understand you correctly below?
Almost
>
> I definately have a "Logitech Wingman Attack 2" joystick (it says so
> right on the base) which has only one wire which is USB. This joystick
> has a trigger plus five buttons & one throttle slider. I do not see any
> place to plug in any rudder pedals into this joystick (as someone
> suggested) so I guess I have to add separate USB rudder-and-brake
> pedals as you kindly suggested.
>
Probably
> Since the pedals on my kid's "Logitech Formula GP Racing Wheel" use a
> tiny telephone hand-set jack (even smaller than a normal telephone
> jack), I really don't see how I can attach those existing car-driving
> gas-and-brake pedals (unless there is a telephone-to-usb or
> telephone-to-serial adapter out there).
>
Never heard or seen one, but *may* still be possible by selecting them as
the axes to assign to the rudder. I doubt it will work the way you want to
though, simply because rudders are designed to be one axis with a center you
deviate from left or right (causing the numbers sent to the computer to go
up or down from center). Gas and Brake pedals are designed to be two
different axes, each at zero, and going up when pressure is applied.
> So, if I understand you correctly (and if I discount someone else's
> suggestion to use the existing pedals), does that mean I should buy the
> recommended set of rudder pedals & a USB splitter so I can plug both
> the CH Pro rudders and the joystick into the same USB port?
Again, almost. you don't need a "splitter". They don't need to be plugged
into the same USB port. The computer is smart enough to keep track. If
you're out of USB ports you can buy a "Hub" which is a device (some are
powered, some aren't; I prefer the powered ones) that plugs into a USB port
on your computer and gives you from 3 to 7 more ports to plug devices into.
Last analogy. You want to watch TV and use your VCR and have a light on,
all at the same time. You don't have to buy a powerstrip and plug your TV
and VCR into the same electrical outlet unless you're out of outlets. The
hub is like the powerstrip. You can plug the TV into the outlet next to the
TV and if you want, the VCR and lamp into outlets across the room. It
doesn't matter where they are plugged in, just that they are.
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