Finally a solution for failing hall sensors or magnets for my Club Sport Pedals V2

Rolando Lopez2Rolando Lopez2 Member
in Pedals

Until recently my Club Sport Pedals V2 were working just fine but recently my clutch pedal started to fail with random spikes. Currently I am using it for flying not for racing, so the clutch actually is a problem because it's needed for the rudder.

So I contacted Fanatec and I was very sad after realizing that Fanatec no longer sells the hall sensor as a spare part. They only sell the magnet, but my magnet looks just fine so who knows... When I bought these pedals I thought that because of their metal construction and hall sensors this would be the last pedals I would ever need but obviously I was wrong. The saddest part is that the pedals looks like new still today and it's a shame to just throw them in the garbage...

Anyways after watching videos on people fabricating their own pedals it occured to me to try something like that. So I went to amazon and purchased a package of 20x10K pots and connected them to the pedals.

It's working great so far, and in the future I will print some 3D parts to remove the metal hook I am currently using. I know It currently looks horrible but at least it's working really well and now I believe I won''t have to worry again: I don't see why the metal parts would fail and regarding the pots, WHEN they fail I will simply replace them with others.

I connected the pots to an old Logitech Extreme 3D (one pedal to the rudder axis and the other pedal to the slider axis) and then calibrated the joystick using DView. I upgraded recently to Win10 and another advantage is that I don't need to install Fanatec drivers (they actually install a windows service that I don't want/need to be running always wasting resources)


Hopefully someone finds this useful, and let me know if you need more pics


Comments

  • David SmithDavid Smith Member

    You've been quite innovative haven't you? I'm surprised they didn't have any replacement hall sensors for you? Wondering if it's because perhaps the V2 pedals are outdated or discontinued?

    I have the V3 pedals with hall sensors of course and what a superb pedals set that is in every way. The hall sensors they say last quite a long time as opposed to potentiometers. I'm hoping though that God forbid if or when I need replacement hall sensors for it they have in stock.

  • Rolando Lopez2Rolando Lopez2 Member

    If you do not plan to sell your pedals, then probably it would be a good idea to buy a magnet and hall sensor spare part for your V3 now that Fanatec still produces them.

  • Oscar Ortiz PalmaOscar Ortiz Palma Member

    Hi Rolando, same problem here, I would need photos and the model of pots you bought please

  • Ian BijvoetIan Bijvoet Member

    My v2's have the exact same problem. Could you provide a little more detail on the replacement sensors you used (also the photo's seem to no longer work).

  • Michel PetersMichel Peters Member

    Thumbnails are not working Mine are also broken.. pedals itself still looking like new. Any update?

  • Rolando Lopez2Rolando Lopez2 Member
    edited April 9

    Sorry, I stopped visiting this site. Perhaps fanatec didn't like this idea and they deleted the pictures. I will try to look for them and upload them again.

    In the meantime, these are the pots from Amazon:

    www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QT1BTLJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

    I will upload the 3D parts I used to mechanically connect the pedals to the pots.

    Anyways, I am still using the same pedals today (2024) for racing (clutch noise/spikes don't matter because I use paddles to switch gears), and for flight sim with a merged setup using Joystick Gremlin. However, since 2023 I am not using the pots with the Logitech 3D anymore.

    Instead, I wrote this simple program, that when it detects spikes/noise in the clutch, it will give me a warning in the style of bitchin betty: "Rudder rudder" then I know that the clutch is having an episode, so I simply push it a couple of times until the warning goes away.


    Here is the program: github.com/rolex20/FanatecClubSportPedalsMonitor


    Perhaps it helps you too

  • Rolando Lopez2Rolando Lopez2 Member

    Here are the pictures from my previous solution. Initially I used a temporary setup which you can see in the pictures. Then I created some 3D parts and used that instead until 2023.

    (unfortunatelly, fanatec is blocking all picture uploading so here are the manual links to github)

    github.com/rolex20/FanatecClubSportPedalsMonitor/tree/main/old%20fanatec%20solution

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