Hi,
seeing other people finding this thread and replying about their issues, I'll post my one too.
Thrustmaster T150RS. One day it stayed turned on (but idle) for 6 hours, then I started driving with it, and force feedback turned off. (I suppose, the motor was heated but still within limits, but after it started working again, it heated above a threshold and something failed.) No driver reinstalls or reboots helped.
Currently, the device turns on and rotates the steering wheel from lock to lock both ways, absolutely normally. It gets detected and work fine in games, except for force feedback.
I opened the lid and checked if there were any noteable defects, but don't see any. I suspect the thermal resistor to be the reason. Currently, it shows 43-45 kOhm, and when heated it drops to 33 kOhm. Comparing to datasheets of other thermal resistors, it seems way off the scale.
I tried a fix, but it did not help: I connected a usual resistor instead: 43K, then 20K, 11K, 5K, 3K, 1K, 510, 325, 100, 30 Ohm, and even shorted the 2 pins. (Every time I would disconnect the wheel and power it down.) None of that seemed to work. Only once with 325 Ohm the FFB would show signs of life, but I could not reproduce that.
Question: what resistance does this thermal resistor have on a working model?