Tutorial Guide to setting up SimTools for use with the Kangaroo motion controller

I have a little Question for homing.
My rig works fine with kangaroo x2 and Sabertooth
Simtools works great and center my rig accurate.
But i want it so when game or simulation end that my pitch axis go down near maximum so i can get easy out and in the rig, and when start simulation sitting in it goes to home position.
im using potis with min. 110 mv and maximum 4780 mv.
what should i type in shutdown sequence?
At the Moment is

1,powerdown<13><10>2,powerdown<13><10>

my roll axis is 1 and my pitch axis is 2

from the guide in the earlier post...

"It should also be noted that if you don’t use your potentiometers full ranges, the Axis values in SimTools will need to be increased to larger values from what they would otherwise be. For example, if you only use half of you potentiometers range, then your rig will reach its maximum and minimum values in half the time it would using their full range. Therefore you need to double the maximum axis values in SimTools to compensate so your rig will respond the same as it would if you were using their full ranges."​

Doesn't using the Axis Limiting function in simtools address this, or am I misunderstanding the issue?

Hello everyone,
I come back to you after several years of absence. I connected my dynamic seat again but I can't get it to work, yet I control it with DEScribe... Has Simtools changed?

Hello noorbeast ! thanks ! I use Kangaroo X2 and sabertooth
and :
1,start<13><10>1,units4095=5000<13><10>2,start<13><10>2,units4095=5000<13><10>
1,p<Axis1><13><10>2,p<Axis2><13><10>
1,powerdown<13><10>2,powerdown<13><10>

Thanks a lot !!!! All is ok !

I know this is a bit of an older thread, but I just got a set of Sabertooths and Kangaroos to play with and have been looking into building some linear actuators with them. That being said, I'm a little stuck on what to do about encoders and am trying to make sure I understand everything before I buy parts. My main question is trying to pick appropriately sized pulse counts for encoders (I'd rather do encoders over pots as I think they make more sense for multi turn applications).

I've found some discussion on the internet that says the Kangaroos have a maximum pulse count of 80000, or 40000 if you are running two motors with a single Kangaroo (which is my plan). The lowest pulse count encoder I can find cheaply on Amazon is 360 ppr, which paired with my actuator design would be ~25,000 pulses over the full travel of the actuator. Generally speaking I don't think this is a problem, but what I'm less sure about is the relative difference between Simtools outputs and the encoder count.

Do you just set the output bit range to whatever most closely matches your upper limit of feedback? That would be something like 15 bits in my case (a weird number, but you can pick it, so whatever works, right?). At that point would you restrict maximum axis motion to get it down to your actual limit or does the Kangaroo handle the scaling itself well enough (ie any value over the maximum you provide is just set to the maximum automatically)? I set up my current 2DOF wiper motors with them and it seemed like it was autoscaling things. By that I mean my feedback range with a 5V pot is only 1.5V to 3.5V due to angle limitations, but when manually testing the axes in Simtools (using units4095=5000), they seemed to follow the outputs appropriately and max the travel range as the slider maxed out.