Question Actuator oscillation/vibration problem

May I ask how much backlash is involved: https://xsimulator.net/community/faq/wormdrive-backlash.293/

I ask as normally increasing dead zone would reduce sensitivity, but it sounds like your rig is reacting to and trying compensate for unwanted movement, in other words it is constantly trying to correct mechanical movement that is independent of telemetry.

If it oscillates that may suggest the rig is trying to resolve to a position, overshoots, which may be a settings issue, then that becomes the next stepping off for the next biggest amplitude increase as it tries to correct again.

So back to my earlier suggestion, set Fpwm to 25, Kp to about 400, Clip and Limit to 255, all other values at zero, then slowly raising PWMmax from zero, at what PWMmax value do the motors start to move?

Could well be.

They are positional commands to tell the rig where to go to when is starts and when it exits a game, see the FAQs here: https://www.xsimulator.net/community/faq/startup-and-shutdown-positional-controls.234/

I don't use SMC3 so am taking a bit of a stab in the dark.

This is the FAQs re startup and shutdown settings: https://www.xsimulator.net/community/faq/startup-and-shutdown-positional-controls.234/

And from the SMC3 thread the related SMC3 set commands: https://www.xsimulator.net/communit...driver-and-windows-utilities.4957/#post-48122

SMC3 Command Set

All commands to/from the SMC3 are sent as data packets each 5bytes long. They start with a left square bracket '[' and end with a right square bracket ']'. Typically the second byte is the command and the third and forth bytes are the parameters.

Code:

Packet Sent            Description                                                                                              Response Packet
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[Axx],[Bxx],[Cxx]  Send position updates for Motor 1,2,3 where xx is the binary position limitted to range 0-1024            None
[Dxx],[Exx],[Fxx]  Send the Kp parameter for motor 1,2,3 where xx is the Kp binary value (restrict to 0 - 1000)              None
[Gxx],[Hxx],[Ixx]  Send the Ki parameter for motor 1,2,3 where xx is the Ki binary value (restrict to 0 - 1000)              None
[Jxx],[Kxx],[Lxx]  Send the Kd parameter for motor 1,2,3 where xx is the Kd binary value (restrict to 0 - 1000)              None
[Mxx],[Nxx],[Oxx]  Send the Ks parameter for motor 1,2,3 where xx is the Ks (d term smoothing parameter between 1 and 20)    None
[Pxy],[Qxy],[Rxy]  Send the PWMmin and PWMmax values x is the PWMmin and y is PWMmax each being in range 0-255              None
                    PWMmax should always be greater than or equal to PWMmin
[Sxy],[Txy],[Uxy]  Send the Motor Min/Max Limits (x) and Input Min/Max Limits (y) (Note same value used for Min and Max)    None
[Vxy],[Wxy],[Xxy]  Send the Feedback dead zone (x) and the PWM reverse duty (y) for each motor                              None
[mo1],[mo2],[mo3]  Request continous motor position, feedback, pwm and status data (all packets sent every 15ms)            [Axy][Bxy][Cxy][axy][bxy][cxy]
[mo0]              Disable continuous feedback from previous [mo1],[mo2], or [mo3] command                                  None
[ena]              Enable all motors                                                                                        None
[sav]              Save parameters to non-volatile memory                                                                    None
[ver]              Request the SMC3 software version, returned value is mult by 100.  (ie: 101 is ver 1.01)                  [vyy]
[rdA],[rdB],[rdC]  Request motor target and feedback for Motor 1,2, or 3 parameters scaled 0-255.                            [Axy][Bxy][Cxy]
[rda],[rdb],[rdc]  Request motor pwm and status data for Motor 1,2, or 3 parameters scaled 0-255.                            [Axy][Bxy][Cxy]
[rdD],[rdE],[rdF]  Request the Kp parameter for motor 1,2,3 where xx is the Kp value multiplied by 100                      [Dxx][Exx][Fxx]
[rdG],[rdH],[rdI]  Request the Ki parameter for motor 1,2,3 where xx is the Ki value multiplied by 100                      [Gxx][Hxx][Ixx]
[rdJ],[rdK],[rdL]  Request the Kd parameter for motor 1,2,3 where xx is the Kd value multiplied by 100                      [Jxx][Kxx][Lxx]


Note the Arduino SMC3 code does not check values sent are within valid ranges.  It is the job of the host application to keep values within
sensible limits as recommended above.