Hotas Warthog - Problem with right throttle

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I've been happily using that awesome Thrustmaster Hotas Warthog controller, with no problems, for something like 15 years!

Recently, however, I have noticed some problems related to the throttle group. In particular, the right throttle lever (engine no. 2) of the throttle no longer works correctly (while the left one is fine). The problem appears even before launching the game, when I test the device on Windows and it is not solved with its calibration.

Thus, acting with the two separate throttles, the slide of the "Z axis" which refers precisely to the right throttle, gives the following results:

- in the "off" position = 100% of engine power

- in position "idle" = 100% of engine power

- just moving the throttle forward = "0" power until about 25% of the movement

- further forward movement increase power and pushing all the throttle we arrive to a maximum of about 62% -69% of engine power.

It should be noted that with the throttle in the "off" position, the button 29 does not activate, unlike the corresponding button 30 which is correctly activated by positioning the left throttle on "off".

I also detected these malfunctions by testing the peripheral on gamepad-tester.com.

These malfunctions happen with both IL-2 Great Battles and IL-2 Sturmovik 1946, so it would suggest that it is not due to game configurations, but to a peripheral malfunction (it could also be caused by dust, false contact of a cable or switch ... ) The strange thing, however, is that when I go to the game's "key mapping" panel (IL-2 GB BoS), when I try to assign the right throttle to engine no. 2, the "joy_1_axis_z" is not assigned, as if it were not detected. Instead in IL-2 Sturmovik 46 the axis is detected and assigned, except however to have the same problems in the management of the motor nr. 2.

In the various forums I have seen that others have had this problem (also in DCS), but I have not found solutions, not even trying the Throttle Warthog Calibration (V1_07) _22_07_2010.rar with which someone has solved the problem.

Do you have any ideas?

Thank you.