Added a deadzone to my brake.

AbbyTheFoxx

TS3 SA
So pretty much since I've started playing iRacing I've noticed a tiny bit of ghost input on my brake that would bounce up and down randomly but it didn't look like much so I just ignored it ever since I signed up 9 months ago.

Today I reset up my pedals and when it told me to fully depress and then release the pedal, I only released the pedal to about where the ghost input would be. It turns out that the brake was inputting as much as 5% or even higher depending on how bad it was (Usually depends on how it gets released) effectively adding a small deadzone.

Here's my laptimes in the Star Mazda before and after.

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It was my first time driving this car at this track (After practicing the F1 at the same track yesterday). I would say that time difference was from me learning the car at that track but the consistency is what is somewhat convincing me otherwise.

So, if you have a tiny bit of ghost input from your brake when you're not using it, it might be worth fixing it :p
 
Wow that looks like quite a difference. I'm experiencing some ghost input as well, but I'm pretty sure it's only on the throttle.

It happens on either end, when I'm on the brakes it goes up and down up to 5% and when I'm fully on the throttle it sometimes goes down to 95% (which I don't think is enough input loss to cut any power).

Thanks for the tip, will probably try this.
 

Fromthenavy

TS3 SA
Wow that looks like quite a difference. I'm experiencing some ghost input as well, but I'm pretty sure it's only on the throttle.

It happens on either end, when I'm on the brakes it goes up and down up to 5% and when I'm fully on the throttle it sometimes goes down to 95% (which I don't think is enough input loss to cut any power).

Thanks for the tip, will probably try this.
Had the same things happen to me, took the G27 pedals apart cleaned the potentiometer with some wd-40 (make sure they're not plugged in) and it went away. It was a killer racing oval having throttle input when under braking.
 

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