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Heavy Hauler
in Trucking Series Controllers
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After a long time waiting for it I finally received the Heavy Hauler at home. The product works as expected and described. The most relavant features to me, as they were the ones more attractive and unique in comparison to other custom controllers I own, are the availability of the two steps ignition key, brakes handles and the CB mic. They work very well and add an extra bit of realism to your experience. Key is mapped to two different buttons, so you can assign the electricals and engine start separately in games supporting this, such as Omsi2 bus simulator. The mic is another interesting feature as it works with a dedicated push to talk button, and is connected to your sound card via a regular jack cable going from the back of the box to your PC. Sound quality is good as far as I have tested.
Mounting of the device is available via Vesa standard supports or 90º brackets. Please note that the USB cable and the audio jack outputs are on the back of the box. So the box is supposed to be mounted vertical, as seen on the screenshots.
About the key mapping, the device is detected by Windows as a regular 32 button controller, so any game supporting joysticks will be able to see it and you will be able to map any game command to it. As described in the instructions for more advanced mapping, you can use JoyToKey software to assign key presses to all buttons. Please note that most of the switches are momentary ones in terms of their real output, and their output signals are quite short in time, but enough for the device to send the keystrokes anyway. For that reason I would recommend Antimicro freeware tool instead, as it allows a more powerfull mapping, including keypress duration, on release commands, delays and multiple macros in addition to autoprofiler. I have been using this tool for years on my games and it works perfect. It could be needed on the cases of a game requiring a longer keypress to operate a control, such as tank fuel selectors or light selectors in flight simulators.
At the time of this review I can confirm the device is working and detected by the version v2.21 x64bit running Win 10 64bit. Antimicro tool is available here:
https://github.com/AntiMicro/antimicro/releases
I would also like to say thanks to Jim for his understanding and support during the purchasing process.
Cheers