Time for upgrade 2DOF to 6!!

ah ok, i get the picture, i have close to zero, basicly i would have to move out the motor shaft more toward the tips of my triangle to have my arm flipped 180deg on the inside to have a 90 deg angle, or close to..., well thats a lot of work !!! hummmm...tks i will do some testing this week-end.

Shit! I will not be able to play with your HTC Vive this weekend

HAHA! @r3df0x !!
But i have a good news for you, YES you will be able come to play...because i will be needing your 2 hands to help me for the test

Ok, so i did a couples of test, to find out i will be needing another dedicated 120v circuit, breaker went off pretty quickly, its an old house which didnt had many circuits for today's need, thats the easy part
My friend and i were able to find a balanced position in rest mode(power off) and standby mode(power on) with me sitting in the seat, but my 2 front motor came VERY hot, too much to keep my hand, so we tried putting one gas strut in the front and it is too strong and it was bottoming in level position, as time went fast, i still need to do other tests and certainly find less strong gas strut(mines are 40kg), but i have 2 big questions:

1. if i give my arms more angle, say close to 90 for the standby position, you say it has more strenght, but does that also mean that the motor will need less current to hold it there, therefore less heat?

2. does my arm absolutly need to be horizontal in standby position to work properly?...i believe that as long as the maximum position during simulation doesnt go over verticalally and goes back down, or up depending, it would still be ok...
tks

Hi @poman Haven't looked back through the thread, but did you ever do any load testing on this motor/gearbox/arm setup? What could it lift?

My arms are at about 20-30 degrees at normal position dunno if that helps or not lol

tks silentchill, i will modify the angle, it is going to make the hole thing higher, will probably need to make a step lol!!
I will have to pay a visit to the junkyard this week-end to have an assortment of gas strut to try out a few other things, been busy at other things lately, but cant wait to have it running, i will also need to figure out how to set my axes assignment.

Hint...

congrats!
I do like the "before/after" effect!

from thinking to reality

Thanks but that's not mine, just part of my research for my future 6dof.
This is the link to the page: http://jippes.home.xs4all.nl/hi6sim/index.html
Also has nice diy actuators: https://jippes.home.xs4all.nl/hi6sim/MK_III.html

Edit: Hey!! you too knew the guy some years ago...

Hi all,
I have been away for a while, but back with an update, still have a heat issue with motor that drives the back, where i will be seated, but solved the front issue and finished cutting and assembling the wooden platform, still have to do the finishing touch
I also gave the order to a local shop to weld the supports for the joystick and gas trottle for my x-52.
Oh, and i forgot to mention that i had to wire a new 120v circuit especially for this, since i have an old house there are many things on the same circuit , projector, computer, Vive etc...i had a breaker popped at 1st try, but since i am an electrician, this was the super easy fix

Hi all, i finally was able to work on figuring out how to set my axis this morning, great feeling to see the right movement
But on the other hand, i still have issues with heat, it goes from one motor to the others as i move and swap stuff, very annoying but at least i see changes and i eventually will figure out a way to make it work.
I also dloaded the most recent plugins i needed, but to my surprise, i didnt saw Dirt Rally !!!! Silentchill used it if my memory is good...i must be blind or something LOL!!

@poman, would love to see a video of axis movement

FANS YOU NEED FANS !!!LOTS AND LOTS OF FANS !!!

Hi,
Back with update, and VERY HAPPY to report that the heat issue is mainly solved with the seat position and strut position, still need to install fans as @SilentChill said which i missed in his thread(thought only the strut was enough to play hourssss, but clearly see them as i watched is thread again) but as i write this, power is on since i did testing with myself, the vids the writing and all is pretty cold so far, btw i did changed the internal wiring on one motor with bigger size wire and new brushes and didnt noticed any difference compare to earlier, the wire still came hot, that was before i find this set-up, and for the axis yesterday, funny note; while i was trying to set the roll, i found 2 other axis by mistake lol , as i was mixed-up since i have 3 motors that needs to be reversed due to their physical position. I also have a second vid posted showing some motor grinding noise that i am not sure what value in SMC3 might be causing that, any help is welcome i also need to smooth out the rattling your heard, that might be in the axis assignment i guess...any help there too is welcome. I also noticed when i tested the axes that when you loose track of the slider, the seat jumped abruptly and noticed the floor was shaking pretty hardly, not sure if i will need to put a support leg in the basement to minimize the stress lol, like i said, old house it would be pretty easy...think i will



here is the motor noise vid:

Does the Funny sound change when you adjust the weight in the seat ? might just be the sound the motor's make when there being "loaded"

Also where did you get brushes for the motors ?

sound is there when platform isnt moving, standby mode, too much noise to know if it is still there when in motion
Brushes were picked-up at a local motor shop, very cheap.
Now i need to find something to couple and seal a fan to my motors, 3 inches diam. like others did, will do holes to suck air at one end and holes at other to extract.