Simulated Wind using MonsterMoto and ArduinoUno

I also painted war Hammer stuff Back in the day. Ah the good ol days spending hours and Hours under a magnifying glass.

I made an inquiry at seaflow about running the fans at 13.8v and got a reply that " 13.8v will work just fine." So "overclocking" the fans should be pretty safe since the manufacturer claims there should be no problems.

The blowers are totally fine to run at 13.8V. On boat or a car your alternator will put out 13.8V to charge the batteries, that is why my rig runs at 13.8V so it can charge my batteries.

My concern wasn't with the blowers or the MM, they can both easily run at 13.8V. My concern was more with the PSU's, they have a little pots that controls the voltage regulator and I just didn't want anyone damaging that pot or the PSU trying to overclock.

The PSU seems to be handling the 13.8 voltage pretty good sofar.

I do have an issue with PCARS and the windsimulator, i hope somebody can help me out

In practice mode the windsimulator works fine, but as soon as i start a career or single player race it doesn't work at all.

Simdash shows an error in " session state " : Invalid

Hi everyone.

Loving the wind simulator, and thought I would set one up.

However, it wont be for my sim rig, it will be for my cycling indoor trainer.

As you can see i have a 30cm fan on the floor which just isnt up to the job. (I cant actually add a link yet because i am a new member)

I have grabbed 2 Aquatrack 270cfm inline fans and some ducting so i can have them mounted away from the trainer as they are super noisy.

My question for you blokes is this. Because the software i use on the bike doesnt have shared memory or API or whatever, I need another way to control the fans. Some sort of Arduino sensor maybe. I am not sure at this point. I would like to be able to have the fans react to the speed of the bike in game. (the software is Zwift)

I do already have an ANT+ USb sensor on the PC that talks to the trainer, and bike to pick up power, cadence and heart rate. But I have no idea how to link that to the Arduino, so just thought an Arduino sensor of some sort would be the go.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated and I really hope this isnt too off topic.

Thanks in advance.

Hi Guys,

Does anyone have the Math code for Assettor Corsa and Dirt Rally or could explain me the logic behind it so I can try to find out how to make it work? I tried the settings from the first page with AC and it didnt work... tks!

Hi,

it really depends on what blowers you are using.
I am using strong blowers and i have set it to

MATH * 0,5
ROUND 0
PAD 3 0

and its enough. I am using the Seaflo 4" blowers.

With the code from the first posting its really important not to get more output then 255. More couldnt be handlet by the arduino.
So when you use MATH *1 you´re speed is the same as the output and when you´re driving over 255 kilometers/h, the blowers wont work anymore.

I need to update the original code with the fix for over 255, been kinda busy but I will get round to it

Tks Craig, but I tried the code from first page and the settings you told me with Dirt and the blowers start to spin while in the menu. I did not changed the output.... Im using 4, 4 SEAFLO blowers by the way.

Guys, here are my settings. No matter code (code from first page or code from page 4) the blowers starts at full speed and will never decrease until I upload another code. Any idea? tks

For starters you probably don't need to Math * 5 for Dirt Rally because it should already be in KPH.

Can you post your com port settings?

Hi Richard, I also tried to remove the math line. Here are my com port settings.

Hi Richard, I also tried to remove the math line. Here are my com port settings.

Yup. I figured that would be the problem. I had someone else do the same thing.

You have it set up in the wrong place, that section is for motion. You want to set it up under the game dash screen

Delete those com port settings

Right click the GameDash icon on the task bar then go to settings.

It worked! Tks!

Finally i have found the cause of why PCARS wasn't working for me:

Somehow you need to have a race that has at least 9 laps in order to have "simwind" working in Pcars

https://www.xsimulator.net/community/threads/project-cars-plugin.4780/page-11#post-117264

The seaflows fans are great, but they are noisy as hell and when driving tin tops the high windspeeds feel unrealistic. Still i needed some cooling for racing in VR. So i added 3 casefans with airstraightners to my rig, which are also speedbased. With the switches on my dashboard i can turn the seaflow on or off. Which is also very handy if you pause the game and they keep running at full speed.

heberger image

Now i can drive at night while the family sleeps and still have some decent cooling.

Can you post all your settings so I can double check them?

I never could get Dirt Rally to work either.

I did some further testing and I have narrowed the window down in which simdash works in PCARS race session

It's 9 - 13 laps

If you start a race with more or less laps, simdash will see the Session State as INVALID

Somethimes the arduino get bugged. Whenever you have speed output in simdash, but the fans aren't working, try resetting the arduino first

Thanks for confirming that

Very Good... Thank you