Hannibal's thread into DIY motion platform

Have you tried dropping your serial rate to 115200 ?

congrats ur your new home @SeatTime !

no i havent.. something i should do?
how would i set that? i thought the arduino and sabertooth auto baud...

unless your saying to do it in mover FlyPT or Simtools..

https://www.xsimulator.net/community/faq/baud-rate-arduino-and-sabertooth.339/


i was reading this.. post about grounding pin 8...
if i want to run at 115200, does the arduino pin stay permanently grounded?

looks like i should make a switch to ground pin 8...i use SMC3 alot, ad im reading that it doenst work with the pin grounded..

I am talking about the serial link from the computer to the Ard. Yes the utility will not work at the lower speed, so wire in a switch. Don't forget to also change the Simtools or other interface settings to suit. Have used this setup myself in the past.

crazy that i finding this out now...

@noorbeast @SeatTime @BlazinH is this how you get 115200 baud? i edited this photo just to make sure i am not doing something idiotic...

also, is it necessary to do anything with the dimension engineering describe utility to make the sabertooth to set a permanant baud rate, instead of autobaud?
https://www.dimensionengineering.com/software/DEScribe/html/

As everything was working before, just wire in a switch from Ard ground to pin 8 and update the Simtools etc interface to talk at 115200.

i retro fitted a latching switch... so far so good.. wow, i feel like i have a new 6doF!

my 6dof is working well now that i lowered the baud rate, and set max clip limits to 0

Im having the same issue, one side mm of 2 running off 1 arduino. running smc3 just the left cuts out every so often.i do have a 14 mm heat sink on each MM but once i reset the power to that MM it resets but only if it is on the back return. if it is on the front of the return the power reset doesnt work.

I always thought it was an issue of signal degridation. ive tried repeaters,boosters and many different lenths of usb 2 and 3 cable always thinking theres a bottle neck somewhere until i saw this forum.maybe changing the MM will work?. going to give it a try tonight.

i tried monster moto during the electronics test build and i found it unreliable.. though i do use them for the wind simulator..

Yes yes i replaced the one and it worked. yeah im running the same for my wind sim. i was able to pick up some 12 volt DC motors of amazon and went wild. put them on my pedals on my wheel and a few in my seat for rumble effect. sad to say im coming to an end on my build of my motion rig. i think its pretty complete though i really enjoyed working on it, kinda more then racing in it. :O). but as they say all good things come to an end.

u have a video of your build? @Tags..(VR)

I do have photos