Master Card: Is it working?
OK gang. I finally got around to hooking up my master card. Well, let's say attempting to hook it up. As usual, nothing works as advertised. I kept getting a lot of spurious inputs in the blank box of the controller program.
I am running through a USB adapter because, I don't have a parallel port on my computer. So, I moved everything to a different computer. The Master card checked out fine. It did what the tutorial says it should do.
When connected to the USB port, back on the FSX computer the controller program shows the USB connection to be good. It shows one Master card and no inputs.
However, when shorting the pins, I get a blink of the red LSD on the USB card but nothing shows up in the white input box. Yet, the counter go up one.
I did find out that my problem is that cheap USB connector on the USB card. I can wiggle it until the LED stays on. When the master card is connected the LED goes out. It flashes when I short pins on the master card. I connected a pot to the A/D pins and I can see the value change as I twist the pot. Are these the correct behaviors?