Ivan Stewart's Super Off Road steering problem

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all 3 steering wheels will work for a while and then all of a sudden the red steering wheel will only turn right. if you turn right, it turns right. if you turn left it turns right. any ideas?
 
Check to make sure your +5V is good (should be about 5.1V at the chips)... but otherwise it sounds like the opto is going bad on the steering wheel.

A good way to test this is to swap optos between one of the other units (can probably just swap plugs with one of the other color steering wheels and see if it follows the steering wheel, or the connector you plugged it into).

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ok thank you, I will try and see if I can swap em and see what that tells me and let you know. thanks
 
so I tried what you said. Looks like it is the steering wheel, because when I connected a different steering wheel it worked fine. I took apart the steering wheel and cleaned everything. I believe its the little chip in the steering wheel thats the problem. Whats weird is if i mess with the connection and dont connect the chip all the way but leave it kind of loose it works fine....obviously this cant be a long term fix because if it gets bumped or whatever it goes back to not working again. Is there any place that sells those steering wheel chips or have any other ideas to fix the chip?
 
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