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My 4dof scrapyard build.

Discussion in 'DIY Motion Simulator Projects' started by Llewelyn, Jan 18, 2019.

  1. Llewelyn

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    Noorbeast,any idea why simulator stays in roll to the left when starting LFS game.During testing all DOF,its all working fine.Any idea?
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    Okay to the first question not to sure,I had downloaded LFS a longtime ago and have been using it to test my diy ffb wheel.Then when I had built my sim I had started testing it with LFS.
    The second question,yes it is set to english US.
    And lastly I wIll get pics of my settings and post them.Thanks
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    Just an update,did testing of all 4 motors working together with just top frame using simtools ,worked well.Then added seat and rest of frame with wheel and my pedals.Now this is where the weight really showed,frame started swaying to the right.Realized it was my back right motor, was a bit loose,had to find a way to tighten up my two back motors,they were hanging over the base frame because of the large gate motor gear boxes.Built a new frame which sorted out the swing to the right,but not completely.Realized I have to negate the weight because of it being front heavy.In the process of placing another motor in the front center to assist with the weight and hopefully it will center the top frame also,will just use this motor for heave purposes.Now i am ending up with a 5 axis motor setup.Will post pics soon of this setup.
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    Here are pics of the 5th motor that i placed in the front for heave assistance.Also placed a spring over the gas strut to completely stop the swinging to the right,realized this was because of the way I was using traction loss ,when weight is applied to the seat the gas strut goes down and swings to the right and wants to actually go lower than the rod arm but cant so it swings because of me using the strut gas movement as traction loss. IMG_20190823_073448_resized_20190823_073838854.jpg
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    Hi guys @yobuddy @Pierre Lalancette @noorbeast @sulfail or anybody :),I have come up with a problem that is probably obvious to some people but Im trying to figure out how do you get the simulator stable,it easily moves all over the place,slides to the left and to the right because of the arm joints.The joints are new but still.I have removed the middle pivot so it is standing just on the arms.I have put up two videos and pics.If any one has any ideas of what im missing please do tell.Thanks.




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    If you remove the pivot then it would need some panhard style rods/frame from the bottom to the top frame to prevent unwanted twist.

    Why was the pivot removed? Seems you started with one type of design and now are doing something completely different.
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    Yes, noorbeast is right. It seems to be a design problem. If I saw right, you have only 4 axis supports that are all free rotating on both ends. The system cannot be stable. The only way I could thing such a system could work is, if you could put it like this. design.jpg
    Even like that, I am not sure it would be safe. You need to put axis in pair, to build tention, so they push one against the other. This is how I do it (like everybody else) with my 6 DOF. They are in pair and they push each others. They are not straight or parallel. Once, one of my axes got a loose end. The whole system went unbalanced and fallen appart. You need a constant tention.

    OR

    Like noorbeast said, you put back this in the middle.

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    So it support the whole system. Even there, I would suggest a bit of tention between the moving axis (like they all push toward the inside), so this center pillar does not support the whole system all to himself.

    I hope my explanation is clear.
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    Yep its a different design,it happened while I was changing my front motor gear boxes because of the trouble i ran into with 25;1 ratio boxes being weak,so I changed them to gate motor gear boxes(much more stronger) and inorder to do this change had to basically redo my frame,so sincingI had plenty of time because of covid lockup went ahead,but since I was doing that,thought Imight try without the pivot,so ended up here :)Thanks guys for the input,yes decided putting back the pivot will be better,but want to try something first(idea from Pierre) and if that fails then will resort back to the pivot setup.Thanks again guys.