Question Using both new and old input gives unexpected vertical behaviour

Ok, this is driving me crazy.
I'm making a split screen 2D-dogfight game and trying out different controllers for it. The new input system works like a charm for PS4-controllers, but now I'm testing a standard usb-joystick (Thrustmaster) on my MacBook Pro.
The new input system does not recognize it as a game controller, so I use the old input system for it.
"Horizontal" and "Fire1" work fine with my joystick. The ship rotates clockwise and counter clockwise as expected, and shoots with main weapon.
My "Vertical" controls the thrust and secondary weapon, and it gives correct values between -1 an 1, but when it gives 0 (zero) for "Vertical" it still behaves like I'm pulling the stick back.
Here's my configuration for the axis. As you can see I've set the dead zone really high, but it still fails.




So, the Debug.Log shows the value is zero, but it still goes into the if(thrust < 0) block and shoots the secondary weapon all the time. I even tried printing out thrust*100 but that still gave zero.
EDIT: I also tried Debug.Log(thrust.ToString()) but it also gives a blank zero.

Code (CSharp):

1. thrust = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
2.             if(thrust<-0.5f)
3.             {
4.                 Debug.Log(thrust); //Here debug shows thrust=0
5.              
6.                 ShootSecondary();
7.              
8.             }

Thank you for any suggestions or insight with this.

 

Ok, I restarted Unity and now it works as expected.