2DOF + traction loss

Hi gang, after reading for several months, I've started on my sim.It's going to be a 2 dof + traction loss. I've finished the frame, got the motors and gearboxes mounted, got the pushrods sorted out. It's looking good so far. I'll post some pictures soon. I'm going to use ard + mm for power. I have a few ards and a few m&m's and I need to test them. I'm good on the mechanical and the the electrical; I'm not too savvy on the ard. Do I need to put smc3.ino in the ard 1st. If so, I can't find smc3.ino on the forum. I'm sure to have a dozen or two more questions.
Thanks, James

I have one 3 dof Motion Simulator with rear traction loss actuator... and dramatically improve the simulated reality!

I have read that forum page before. None of those utilities have the file scm3.ino. I need to test the ards and the mm's separately. I'll need to cull those bad MM's. I want to use my laptop for this job. Now I didn't have the pot or the wiring hooked up. Do I need to have the ard, pot and the MM hooked up before hand? Before running the scm3 utility? The scm3 utility doesn't recognize the ard. The computer sees the ard, so at least a little communication. Now I'm going to admit; up front, I'm not very ard savvy. I'm going to need hand holding and help. Here are a few more pictures.

@1oldbiker to be honest but I believe you did not read the SMC3 thread... cannot help further.

Well, I did read it but I missed the title. I got the scm3.ino downloaded and I'm going to start playing with it. I just can't wait to play with the completed rig. a few more pictures.

It's still raining. Here are a few more pictures. The pot couplers are so nice, it was good to have this forum to now what to buy. Here are some more pictures.

I'm going to grow gills, it rained again. I want to ride my bike. Working on the rig today. The final batch of MM's showed up. Now I can start testing. Here are a few more pictures

Friend (to me), "nice tan", me: "that's rust". More GD rain. Living around here, I'm used to SOME rain. For the month of Dec., we've had over a foot of rain. I need to make a boat not a driving sim. Going to be testing and culling the Mighty Moto's today. If the electricity stays on. My UPS's are beeping and chirping as I write this. I'm going to double up on the MM's; like @Pit's post. This will keep the load across each chip to less than 10 amps. No pictures right now, more later. James

I jest went and checked my rain gauge. 2 and 1/2 inches since yesterday afternoon. Ok, I get it; quit.

Testing is moving along smoothly. All three motors run (not so smoothly) using the scm3 utility. Soon will test using SimTools. A few more pictures.

That 's the good coupling to the motor potentiometer
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So I'm slowed down a little. My power supply died and took out all 6 of my moto monsters. I've been using that power supply for 20 years, so sad. Then my computer (gaming) died. MB expired. So, confuser is operational, but am waiting on on some more MM's. I do so much want to play with the motion. Weather is nice so I can ride my bike.

oh no... the psu blowed all MM's? This is new to me. Very odd. NTL stay tuned, nice rig you have and shit happens, as long we can handle it there is a perspective

The PS was an old Sorenson. I would guess that the output stage went "wide open". The MM's made ugly popping and snapping noises. When I glanced at the PS, the overvoltage was on and it showed no voltage, no current. Bad juju. I'm an ex-hotrodder; so I am used to terrible disappointments. My 18 foot jet boat had a 454 chevy bored and stroked to 540 cubic inches. High compression, nitrous oxide, and a heavy foot contributed to several exciting failures. There was the time when we were racing at Kilowatt Stadium (aquatic drag strip) and the boat bounced out of the water around 100MPH. Engine ran with no load; this spit the rods out the bottom. Yep, just like you would think, it went right to the bottom. A really, really expensive weekend. I may have even shed a few tears over that one.

You have the same motor I have, the ones I got are right hand, can I use them as they are, or do I have to open the gear case?

Thing about racing boats, you are close to god. lol I was making 75K per year back then and had no pocket money. I'm so glad to be over it. I'm just sitting here pissed off about waiting on parts. I'm going to delve into the PS tonight and see what ugliness has happened. The rain has moved out and 1st I'll go for a bike ride, then troubleshoot the PS

I had four more MM's (need 5 total) so I'm waiting for parts. In the meantime, I've been playing AC; I suck at AC. This probably won't change when motion is added. Now, I've got a SCM3 question. After we get through playing with the ard as a servo driver (under scm3 utility), do we need to reset the pid values and other values to the the original values? Or, are optimal values around? Does SimTools just take care of the necessary values? Here are a few more pictures

@1oldbiker great progress so far! SMC3 offers various settings and comes with a default setting but is not recommended. I will upload a screen shot from where to begin and which settings are relevant.