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Question SMC3 Target Line Noise

Discussion in 'DIY Motion Simulator Building Q&A / FAQ' started by Phalangical, Feb 19, 2026 at 20:25.

  1. Phalangical

    Phalangical New Member

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    Greetings All,
    Long time lurker, first time poster. I'm in the process of building a 6dof flight simulator. It's powered by 3 arduino unos. I'm at the stage where I'm tuning the motors using smc3 util. Motors 1-4 are configured and behaving as expected. Motors 5 and 6, are giving me a bit of trouble though. These motors and the associated hall sensors are both connected to the same arduino. The blue target line for these two motors spikes at random, causing the motor to move erratically. See image attached for an example graph. The same is true for both motors. I suspect a grounding issue, but not sure. Am I on the right track here? Any ideas how to narrow down the cause?

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  2. Joe Cortexian

    Joe Cortexian Active Member Gold Contributor

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    Depending on the Hall Effect sensor you could be sending a PWM signal to the analog port. If that’s the case you need a low pass filter.

    if you are using a knock off Uno the analog power might be bad. That would make sense that only that Uno has a problem.
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  3. Phalangical

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    Thanks Joe, I'll look into low pass filter. I'm certain it's not the arduino. That was my initial thought as well, it is a clone. But I replaced with a known good one and same issue. One other "symptom" I'm noticing is that smc3 util is extremely slow to connect to this arduino for some reason, 60+ seconds in most cases. This is true with both arduinos as well, generic and good one.
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    May I suggest you look at tidying up wiring runs and add cheap ferrite magnets to rule out EMF interference.
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    Forgive me, I'm a software guy, the hardware side of things is a bit more challenging for me. But just to be clear, you are talking about putting a resistor and capacitor in series between ground and the analog signal from the hall sensor? Thanks
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    Lol, I have no doubt that my wiring could be tidied up. But I find it odd, that this is the only one of the three arduinos I'm experiencing this on.