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6 dof wooden prototype - Bodine gearmotor

Discussion in 'DIY Motion Simulator Projects' started by Aljas Chief, May 29, 2016.

  1. Aljas Chief

    Aljas Chief New Member

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    Hello from Hungary. Sorry for my poor English. The moment has come to open the simulators was my topic . A year ago, I found out this fantastic forum , but so far I've only read-only mode. I want to thank all the members of the forum a lot of inspiration and a description of what I read on this forum and I saw it. This is a fantastic and a great forum members make up this community. I'm glad that I found this forum and become a member . :)

    Some things in the simulator : This is still only a prototype , made of wood . The preparation of the final structure of steel and aluminum is in progress. The preparation has really helped my brother .
    The components used :
    12 pieces MotoMonster
    3 piece Arduino Uno
    6 pieces Bodine 42A3BEPM -E3
    6 pieces DELTA DPS - 835AB PSU
    6 pieces BI TECHNOLOGIES Hall Effect sensor

    The previous two months, is approximately 200 hours playing with it. No problem occurred . The Bodine motors falling perfectly withstand very strong robust .
    A lot of my plan , and it will be a lot of work before they are finalized , but in the meantime some pictures and
    a video . Soon uploading additional videos.



    greeting
    aljaschief

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    Helló Magyarországról. Bocsánat az én gyenge angolom miatt. Eljött a pillanat hogy megnyissam az én szimulátorom topikomat. Egy éve találtam rá erre a fantasztikus fórumra, de ezidáig csak olvasás módban voltam csak. Szeretném megköszönni az összes fórum tagnak a rengeteg leírást és inspirációt, amit ezen a fórumon olvastam és láttam. Ez egy fantasztikus fórum és nagyszerű tagok alkotják ezt a közösséget. Örülök neki hogy rátaláltam erre a fórumra, és tagja lehetek. :)

    Néhány dolog a szimulátorról: Ez most még csak egy prototípus, fából. A végleges szerkezet elkészítése acélból és alumíniumból jelenleg van folyamatban. Az elkészítésben nagyon sokat segített az öcsém is.
    A felhasznált alkatrészek:
    12 darab MotoMonster
    3 darab Arduino Uno
    6 darab Bodine 42A3BEPM-E3
    6 darab DELTA DPS-835AB PSU
    6 darab BI TECHNOLOGIES Hall effect sensor

    Az elmúlt 2 hónapban amióta elkészült körülbelül 200 órát játszottunk vele. Probléma mentessen. A Bodine motorok tökéletesen bírják, nagyon erős masszív darabok.
    Nagyon sok tervem van, és még sok munka lesz vele, mire elkészül a végleges, de addig is néhány kép és egy videó.



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  2. noorbeast

    noorbeast VR Tassie Devil Staff Member Moderator Race Director

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    Great to see another 6DOF up and running, I look forward to you adding more details about it.

    If you shoot another video from a fixed position, where we can see the sim movement and the screen at the same time, then members can suggest refinements to your motion profile.
  3. BondeX

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    hey @Aljas Chief, you have done a great job. I am so happy to see that these motors are working well for you as I will be using the same motors. :)
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    Nice 6DOF (from what I can seen in the dark room :)). Although from the little I can see, hitting the guard rail did not seem to be reflected too much if at all in the rig o_O.
  5. SilentChill

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    Excellent work :) well done !

    You really need to sort the profile out as the movements don't seem to reflect anything that's going on in game a whole lot of up and down going on :D
  6. Aljas Chief

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    Thank you all for the congratulations . The above video has been made in the past. Since then refined settings , but still not very good. So I accept any help and advice on setting up the game 's profile . Thanks in advance. Currently I play the Project Cars and Dirt Rally games. I made two fresh videos from it. ( Unfortunately, the light is still not the best, but more light I can not do it, because then the projector is not shown . ) This will copy the current profile settings.





    Dirt Rally
    Profile
    Main Level: 70%
    Roll: 5
    Pitch: 15
    Heave: -5
    Yaw: 0
    Sway: 5
    Surge: 15

    Tuning Center (Max/Min)
    Roll: 10/-10
    Pitch: 10/-10
    Heave: 2/-2
    Yaw: 180/-180
    Sway: 2/-2
    Surge: 2/-2

    Project Cars
    Profile
    Main Level: 95%
    Roll: 10
    Pitch: 5
    Heave: 15
    Yaw: 0
    Sway: 20
    Surge: 40

    Tuning Center (Max/Min)
    Roll: 10/-10
    Pitch: 10/-10
    Heave: 10/-10
    Yaw: 180/-180
    Sway: 10/-10
    Surge: 4/-4
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  7. SilentChill

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    Wow dunno where to start here :D

    I personally always have the main level set to 100%. You have 6DOF so you should be using at least 20% in every DOF. I use 30%-50% on every DOF in pretty much every game I use it on.

    You should be using Extra1 instead of YAW when ever possible or else you get thrown from one side to the other when you reach the 180/-180 point.

    Set all the DOF's to 20% and if the movements are too much make the tuning settings higher so they aren't as violent. Also you can add some smoothing to the DOF aswell

    I am not on my gaming PC so cant share my exact settings, I will do soon as I need to send them to another member on here also :)
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  8. Aljas Chief

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    Thanks for the reply, SilentChill! Your simulator also drew a lot of ideas.... Really nice work . :)
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    Latest videos are allot better. With the roll centre so low, likely a good idea not to have too much movement in the roll and pitch DOFs.
  10. bruce stephen

    bruce stephen Hammer doesnt fix it, must be electrical

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    This makes me happy like a pig in sh!t. What is the weight of the top part with the rider? An estimate is ok. Very good see the bodines on yet another rig.
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    I'm 103 , the upper part is approximately 40 , so it is 143 kilograms . I use one piece of gas telescope in the middle of the structure. Two gearmotor cooling with one piece of 12 cm fan from the rear . He never went above 40-45 Celsius. Have we continually played to 10 hours . But without a fan and a gas telescope after only one hour at about 70 celsius were the engines ...
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  12. bruce stephen

    bruce stephen Hammer doesnt fix it, must be electrical

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    Ok thank you @Aljas Chief. I'm aiming for 115 kilos and no gas strut. I think I will need them after reading a lot of threads. it seems it's struts or ac motors and ac motors isn't very cost effective.
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    My mistake, you have actually raise the roll centre , did not originally see that in the dark video :).