No. No simucube, or anything related to the simucube x3 port in the device manager. Only the «serial connector» Ft230x at x4.
Have you tried with another cable? Is there any physical damage on the connector?
No damage on the connector, tried with 4 different cables. With and without ferrit emi protection.
I dont know if this can give you more detailed info Mika. But the x4 outputs 2,03v. The x3 nothing.
Tested both in dfu mode and not.
There is typically no supply voltage being supplied from USB device to host, so you are essentially measuring just some floating voltage.
Does the LED on Simucube (not on IONI servo drive) light up at all?
Yes. Led nr 3 is Green. Constant.
OK, that means that the 3V regulator is up and running. How about when you start the device and would expect the wheel to be normally operational. The firmware should turn some additional LED on when you turn over the bumpstop. Can you test that?
Yes, led nr 6 lights up Green.
That shows that the microcontroller is alive.
As this happened in conjunction with the move of some stuff, I suspect either the USB ESD protection diodes have taken a hit / burned, or that the microcontroller’s USB has just died somehow. It is rare, but can happen. System might be OK if those diodes were replaced.
So, as a dd ninja, you belive that the «fault» is at the simucard end, and not the computer end. And replacing the simucard or fixing the diodes wil fix the issue?
Yes, I believe its in the simucube end this time. You can try to verify this if you have a laptop to try out with.
Do you know if the Simucube is under warranty or not?
I dont belive the simucard is under warranty. So i need to fix this myself one way or another. The dd wheel is a kit from simracingbay. Is has been working perfect, and without any hickups until now.
Thank you so much for your time and knowlegde.
Email our support for details on the diode. Your local electronics repair shop will most likely be able to replace the diodes. Might be worth to try to repair.
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@ Mika is the Simucube board sensitive enough to ESD that someone could kill the board via ESD just by touching the metal end of the USB cable?
I would assume the outer shell of the USB port and cable is ground?
The ESD protection diodes are supposed to handle that but sometimes even they can fail.
If it is a brand new computer System build you may need to download the FTDI Driver from FTDI… sometimes windows does not install this automatically. It doesn’t really sound like the board is actually bad from what I read…
The problem is IF you have the SimuCUBE firmware on it Granity will not be recognized unless it is in Granity axcess mode AND MMOS will not recognize it at all without reinstalling the MMOS firmware.
FTDI drivers are absolutely not required for the X3 (USB game controller port) to work.
But they would be required for him to connect with DFUse to rue-load a firmware to be able to talk through Granity since the SimuCUBE firmware locks out the Granity access.
No, since the Dfusedemo software is connecting to the X3 port, which can be made visible as STM32 bootloader. It seems this port has some hardware related fault.
FTDI drivers are only needed in some rare cases when user wants to access IONI servo drive via the X4 port, which actually has a FTDI serial to USB chip on the Simucube.