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Fanatec shifter handbrake12/28/2023 Use the bolts provided to mount the shifter to any drilled metal plate or bracket. Just take the little corner pieces off by unscrewing them, and slot the nuts in. The shifter comes with little t-slot nuts which makes side or rear mounting relatively simple. This is quick and painless and the cable connects on the rear of the housing, which allows you to hide it from most angles with reasonable success. Base mounting is simple with 4 bolts, and that’s how I installed it on my rig. For more specialised rigs like 8020 offerings, there are lots of brackets available for base mounting, rear mounding or side mounting. There’s not a sim chassis available today whose universal shifter bracket doesn’t cater for the Clubsport shifter. My Simetik K2 rig has the optional shifter mount which allows me to bottom mount this shifter for a super clean and sturdy look. However, this seems to be with good reason as the build quality of the fanatec shifter far surpasses any of the others I’ve tried. This is by far the heaviest of the shifters I’ve reviewed since I started this channel, and it also takes up the most space. It’s now 2020 and a lot has changed in sim racing, but why do people still consider a 7 year old shifter as one of the best, if not the best shifter on the market? Let’s find out! This shifter is still very highly regarded in the sim racing world, even by those who have left the fanatec ecosystem for more exotic brands. If you’re about to buy a Clubsport Shifter, I would definitely add the adapter whether you think you need it or not! You’ll be saving yourself quite a lot of money in the long run.The fanatec Clubsport shifter SQ v1.5 has been around for a while… since 2013 to be exact. I just wish that Fanatec would charge less for the delivery of these tiny accessories. There’s a tiny gotcha in the final stage of gear calibration – leave the shifter in 7th gear when you click done or it messes up the calibration and you have to start again. When it’s done, close the dialogue – it doesn’t take any time at all.įinally, you’ll need to calibrate the shifter: Then update the USB adapter firmware with the correct device selected: Note that the adapter is pre-configured with the shifter firmware: Open up the properties dialogue and you’ll most likely see this dialogue. Open Windows Game Controllers and you should see it installed: When you connect the USB adapter, you have to install the driver for the device you’re converting to USB (if there’s a Fanatec driver already installed your PC will detect the device). It’s a tiny little circuit board with one of these chips. I was curious about this, so I took the lid off: Inside Fanatec’s USB adapter What does the USB adapter look like inside? To make it worthwhile I thought I’d try and squeeze a blog post out of it, too. I buckled and paid the £20 delivery fee for a £20 item. But it is present in order to soak-up the differences in the values output by the shifter. Often the calibration is near enough and it will work without the special driver. What it does internally is look at the values from the X and Y pots in the shifter, and then makes a decision which game port button to simulate based on the nearest gear it can deduce. ![]() Luckily the firmware out of the box is for the shifter. Secondly, there are two different firmwares one for the shifter and the other for the handbrake. Firstly, you have to install the Fanatec driver, otherwise you cannot calibrate it. The thing is it is not a normal game adapter. But there’s no other way to convert your Fanatec shifter to USB without this adapter. Unfortunately, the adapter is expensive (and delivery is extremely pricey too). ![]() If you’ve been dependent on your Fanatec wheelbase for game controller compatibility between your PC and Fanatec shifters, handbrake or pedals, it can come as quite a surprise to learn that upon migrating to a non-Fanatec wheelbase, the only way to maintain compatibility is to buy the Fanatec USB adapter.īasically, if you migrate to a non-Fanatec wheelbase you’ll be in need of a way to convert the RJ45 connector to USB.
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