Motion Sim w/ Surge & Traction Loss

Back home now after 4 days of work on simulator. Unfortunately the motor mishap means I couldn't get it running this weekend as we didn't have the arms made for the 50:1 motors yet however we did finish building the frames. Ill be back up in 3 weeks and hopefully get a bit more done!

Pics show current state

also a little video showing how surge and traction loss moves

Really professional craftsmanship, I would be happy if I could do at this high skill level
The only one remark (which is no criticism really, only an opinion of my impression at all) depends the design, I wonder about the relationship of surge - traction loss. If the seat moves [EDIT] back [/EDIT] (eg. while braking) the TL radius will get wider. Dunno how much this will result effectively. Further surge reduces/extends the distance to the screens if the latter is not mounted on the rig, ergo this has a influence of the FOV.
Please do not misunderstand my intention, I would do it the same if I could do so Mostly our sims are compromised designs, advantages and disadvantages have to be gauged to each other or better said: we have to balance pros and cons

No worries at all. We discussed how to do the design for awhile to be honest and alot of it is trial in error I guess. Fov shouldn't be affected really as I'll be using oculus rift as my main device

and yes there was some talk about the surge affecting TL but hopefully it works ok, seems too at the moment

My setup uses a seatmover and not a full frame, so it is not quite the same. Originally I had my monitor moving with my surge/traction loss - so obviously no change in FOV. When I went to Oculus - due to the flexing/shaking of the frame I had to mount the camera off the rig, so you do notice a slight change in FOV (like you are moving your head forward and back) with surge, but I don't notice anything with traction loss. I like using the Rift so much (especially now with sweetfx) that I have got use to it. Haven't bothered upgraded anything on this sim to fix it, as I am building a whole new sim.

made another trip up and did a little more work. Still hadn't made the ctc lever etc for the 50:1 motors so couldn't get it running still however spent the time adding some stuff such as a harness and a monitor mount and camera mount for oculus with ability to remove off rig if needed. It slides into front of traction loss frame.

Last bits and pieces are being made while im away and it will be ready for me to finally wire everything up when Im next up so pretty happy to finally have everything basically built now. Im pretty tired after the weekend, a lot of work has gone into it now so hopefully its worth it in the end

Ill upload pics later if ive got time

Pics uploaded

do you think these springs would be ok for that effect @noorbeast

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new question fellas, just to make sure on these

This is all I have to do on these HP 700w server power supplies?

Just a jumper between those points and run my main 12v as per soldering

nevermind found info on it and yes I was all correct.

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affable

does anyone know if Oculus Rift etc will work with SLI etc? Im just buying new PC for this motion sim and wondering if its worth getting a second gtx 970 later

My understanding on the SLI aspect was that it increased latency and caused some issues in certain titles.

There was a bunch of discussion on the Oculus forums as i was looking at it for Assetto Corsa

hmm ok interesting

It costs me around $350 extra to go to a gtx 980 vs $150 extra for SLI motherboard and cost of extra 970 in a year or two once a lot cheaper but I saw in benchmarks the 970 SLI was far better then a single gtx 980. However its not worth it for me if its gonna set disadvantages for SLI with latency etc as you said so might change my mind

I'd be holding off until CV1 is released before making too significant choices in hardware, I'm battling away on older hardware with my DK2, CV1's higher specs are better looked at when its released and comparing to the hardware thats available at that point in time.

not to mention driver support