4 DOF (PITCH-ROLL-TRACTION LOSS-SURGE)

Hi everybody,
after more then one year finally I started with the add of TL and surge.
I decided for Ard and sabertooth 2x32 and 2 gearmotors 24 V 60:1. I bought the stuff here on the Marketspace form My.stAr

Then, in stead of the levers I decided to use the timing belt, and bought some other stuff here, from a store near home .....

... and also have prepare some parts by myself.

... in the afternoon played with Ard and Saber.
Everything seem to be ok
Manual movements with SMC3 are ok and manual movements with simtool too. Of course these are first movements but I'm happy for that.
For test I used the PSU of my old pc (12 V ) and it works if I change slowly the direction but if the changement is fast it shut down . But this is normal. The motor is 24 V 250W so....
I'm ordering a PSU 24 V 1000 W. I think wil be ok for these motors

... Forgot one thing. In SMC3 the buttons motors on/off work only when them wants
If I click on it (this is for all 3) they don't switch or better, switch only sometimes but normally don't.

Hi everybody this couple of day I made some work.
At first disassembling ...

.....then





TL almost ready.
A couple of thing to finish off and start to think about sourge

Hi everybody, I hope someone can help me,
Do anybody use these kind of pots ?

https://tinyurl.com/y4kd6h2j

Thanks

Hi everybody, after a lot of time I'm almost ready for the first test with Arduino one and sabertooth but here some pictures of the work done

...also change the system to use the pots from this

...to this...

hi, can anybody tell me why the motor buttons of SMC3 doesn't work?
I can start with the motors but then I can't stop them becaus the buttons stay always ON

Hi guys, I finally finished some changes to my system but I'm facing a new problem and I hope someone can help me to solve it!
Anyway, everytime I start Game Engine it works until I go on output testing tab and when I click on Turn on, it crash after few seconds. I've restart both PC and program like 5 or more times and then it started working correctly but everytime I shut down the PC I have to do the same.
Looks like something is randomly killing the process but don't know what it is... I already checked if the windows' antivirus was blocking the program or if it could be some conflicts with other processes but nothing...
Is this happened to anyone yet? Any ideas?

Hi guys, about the problem I have had, firstable sorry for the poor info I gave you.

I try to explain better.

Before to modify the rig adding surge and traction lost, this was how it worked:

Switch on the power to the motors

Open Game engine

Motors were centered to zero

Start the game (Project Cars 2)

Having fun J


After the modify :

Switch on the power to the motors

Open Game engine

Motors are centered to zero

Start the game

After fews seconds (random) Game engine shut down

It means the game engine window disappear from the monitor without any warning or message.


Maybe can useful for someone what I “discovered”


Normally (with the “old” rig) when Game engine is closed the motors lose the zero position.

The motors I mean, are the two for pitch and roll that move the seat on the universal joint.

In this case (with the “new” rig) when Game engine is closed both motors sometimes hold the zero, sometimes only one of them hold the zero but the other one no and this was really strange .

Then I thoug about some hardware problem


The difference betwen old and new rig :

Two new motors

Arduino

Sabertooth card (for new motrs installed)

One USB hub to connect PC with Arduino and 2 JRK cards I use for old motors for pitch and roll.

I eliminated the hub and connected usb cables directly to the PC.

Tested many times opening and closing Game manager and the game without problems.

I don’t know if can be possible a connection with the problem but at the moment this seems to be the solution.

In these days I will test again and if somthing wrong will happen I will upgrade this thread

Anyway thanks for the support ...and sorry for my english

Yes output testing is ok.
I played PC2 yesterday night a little bit and is fine
Later I will send some screenshot of the setting

.... mybe I will post also a short video "in action" even if I still have to adjust better the axes, but before to do that I would like to upgrade Simtool from 2.3.1 to version 2.4