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Long story short, reversing the +- wires for motor 1 fixed it. Or at least they both work now.
That was frustrating. Though I do think I had some bad hardware at the beginning.

Very exciting progress, despite many knucklehead errors. Question about SMC3Utils, Max Limits, Clip Input and range of motion. I had been believing that I could/would be limiting my range of motion to 45 degrees up and down, and designed my CTC levers(2.5 inch) with that in mind. 3D printed and they actually hold me, pretty cool. But, I was fooling with manual mode and the limits imposed by having Max Limits and Clip Input set to 255 will let the lever move to almost 90 degrees off "zero", that's fine going up, but on the down stroke, will definitely bend a rod or break a lever. Is there another way to impose a tighter limit? Or will that be a function in FlyPT Mover? Or am I not doing any of this right?

There is “hold you up” and there is you jumping up and down on them. For example when you catch air going over a rise the front of the car will go down hard. Or when you hit a wall or another car. That will instantaneously jerk the lever arms. Maybe it will work but don’t be gentle when you test. If you only do flight sim and only on concrete runways you may be ok.

Unfortunately, the software assumes that your motion is in the range of 256-512+256 or more. So long as you don’t rely on the menu you can hard code the limits. These limits are typically in addition to limits you set in FlyPT. I use SimTools and find it difficult to tune the limits so I rely a lot on the SMC limits.

I have hit the brick wall
Just trying to get the rig to move via joystick. As far as I can glean from reading the threads and the FlyPT Mover website, this setup should produce some result. Any input from someone with FlyPT experience would be appreciated.

Things i know: I'm using Mover 3.5.3 The software is definitely getting inputs from the joystick. When the output is connected, the motors make a little noise, I cannot then open SMC3Utils without getting an error, so at least Mover is tying up that port. And that is it. No Movement. Send Help

Well sounds like there is not enough power going to the motors. I don’t use FlyPT. Maybe there is a gain factor in flyPT you can adjust.

It’s possible that Kp or Max PWM are set too low. Try bumping kp up as high as you can without uncontrolled vibrations and see of that helps.

If you have a second computer I suspect you can set up an Ethernet connection. This allows you to put SMCUtils in pass through mode so you can see what is coming in and the result on your rig. This is described in the first page of the SMC thread. Technically you should be able to set that up using localhost. Especially since there is no game involved.

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Now I have something of a geometry issue. I'm not getting near the range of motion I was hoping for, about 7-10 degrees. I'm 3 in pitch and 1.5 in roll. The roll is limited because if you're at full pitch and then go full roll, the lever and rod would bind. This is probably large due to the way I made my CTC levers with a fork style connection. Bear in mind the 3d printed levers were never meant to be the final state, just an easy temporary solution, but even when I get metal ones fabricated I think the fork style is more balanced. So, my thinking is to move the upper rod connection point back to the end of the seat, that should allow for a bigger range of motion, and the Mover software seems to allow for it. Is that the right move, or am I thinking wrong?