Question MOTION NOT WORKING

Hello again. I thought I had my motion platform working fine but guess what, it's not. When I check my motion using the Utls. Program they both work fine however in game number 3 which is really #2 does not move with corresponding movement of aircraft. I would think that if it works in one than it should work in game also. Please see attached pictures.

hpwells1

Well I am happy to say that the motion is working. (I did not have my Axis Assignments set right) I have pitch and roll however the old problem I had before did not go away and that is that when the accurators reach the max or minimum they do not return to center. I installed a reset button on my platform so that I can get them to center as I am flying. I would prefer not to use the reset as a fix. I don't know if it is the settings that I have or one of my controllers are bad. They are the cheap ones and I probably should up grade to a better one. I will tell you I have the old version of Sims Tools installed 2.1 but it has worked well for me before I switched to the worm gears and new motors. I have posted my setup utils using motor #1 and #3 and from the picture I posted above you can see I have them setup in a "Y" arrangement. along with a swivel post center. Any help with this is appreciated .

I am using motor #3. see Fpwm https://www.xsimulator.net/communit...driver-and-windows-utilities.4957/#post-48121 I had them higher with the same problem. I thought that this would allow me to only use 85 percent of the travel (in game) for that axis assigned. I am sure you are right about this.

terry.

@norrbeast

I changed out some settings and controller board and thought I had solved my problem. But not. Here is what
I can tell you:
I am running Sim's Tools on two computers using Arduino sketch SMC3 mode-2. The motor controller board assy. consist of 2 ea IBT-2 Arduino 43 amp cards. 1 ea Arduino Uno board powered on com-4 and my power supply is a Power Max 12vdc 55 amp output.
here are my SMC3 utils settings for both motors.
FPID=1
KP=400
Ki and Kd=0
Ks=1
FPWN=25KHz
PWMmin=40
PWMmax=150
Max limits=70
Clip limits=75
Dead zone=1

It seems to me or in fact it does hang up when I do a bank right or bank left. I need to push the reset button to get the accurators back to center. One note, this worked when I was using the 12vdc winch motors but since I changed them out with 12vdc 1/4hp 56C TEFC permanent magnet motors along with the worm gear reducers I have had a problem. It works when I use the SMC3 utils program. I can run manual ,motion,sign waves and all is good. It just don't work in game.

Thank You
Terry

I don't know if the motor is shutting down or not. all I can tell you is that when I push the reset button on the Arduino, it goes to where I am flying, ie center/level or what ever.

Thank you @yobuddy for this advice. However at this time I am using the old Sims Tools program (2.1) but I have been thinking about up grading to 2.5 because of the roll over setting in the game. You see I am 72 years old and changing all that info from 2.1 to 2.5 seems very confusing to me. However I will think about it. I like flying. I am going to set my out put axis to what you said and see if that helps.

I am confused by what you say Next go into your Max/Min setting for the game and set roll and pitch Max/Min to 90/-90. Is this the axis limiting you are talking about?

Thank you @yobuddy for the advice. I have a question to ask, if I am using ver. 2.1 Sims Tools do I need to have the fit. set in the edit axis and if so would that be all or just the smoothing and what would you recommend to set it to? btw I set the min and max to 90 and motor #1 still stops working when the actuator is in the upper most position, I need to use the reset button.

Terry

I wish that was the problem but it's not I have already tried what you said. same problem.

seems a little strange because the motors I have now are much better than the winch motors I was using early and had no problems like this.

Quick Question. If I buy the new 2.5 sims tools will my problems go away?????

@noorbeast thank you. After thinking about it for a while I see where the newer motors may need more power. I am going to try some things and see what happens next. Do you think I should up grade my motor controller boards and if so what would you recommend I use for a 12vdc system?? Will the FSX and P3d plug in work in the demo mode??