Showroom 12v Winch Motor Driving Simpit

RacingMat, you asked for these pictures a while back. Sorry it took so long:

Gears of raaaaaaa!!! love it! the Resolution looks great??

Resolution? Hehe, "Gears of Ra" I like that....gives a somewhat mystical feel to the project.

Wanna see something really cool?

My new wallpaper:

Thanks for the pics even if you found the solution before !
How did you finally get rid off shear force onto your pot ? a little more gap between gears ?

Many teeth !!!
So, between simulator highest position and lowest position, how many pot turns do you get ?

nice idea of side screens on the side, that would be a more compact 3 screen setup

Mat, I will have to take a look and find out. I doubt there is one full turn though. Kind of overkill for 10 turn pots I know but they are what I had available

EDIT: Forgot to answer your other question. I used a Dremel and elongated the mounting hole for the pot so I could adjust the position.

Dave, thanks! I do a lot of writing so having documents open in portrait mode makes it much easier to get work done. The center screen is a Dell 30" 2560x1600 so no scarcity of gaming space either

I am loving the Simtools wallpaper!

Here is my very first video of my large....aspect....riding the simulator

I am 6'4" (1.93m) tall and weigh 350lbs (158kg), this thing tosses me around like I am a leaf in the wind

Sorry for the glare from the front of the shop, that is the sun reflecting off the top of my head, lol.

woohoo! Yeah, lets rock. Great job!

Wow, I really can't believe it is finished....

After four years of failure; with the 24v motors killing two K8055s, getting completely lost in trying to figure out x-sim (which compared to SimTools is labyrinthine) and enviously watching the youtube videos of those who were more successful than I, I finally have a working motion platform.

Want to know what my biggest failure what though? I failed to ask for help.

Fantastic... I am sure you will agree it is extremely satisfying taking that first drive in a new sim!

BTW, Is the shelf at the back for your mates to rest their drinks while watching?

lol, only if they don't mind their drinks flying around the room

Actually, I had installed that when I was testing and tuning the motors/sled. I wanted someplace to put the keyboard and mouse. I thought at first I would keep it there in case I did upgrades, etc in the future but now I doubt I will need it. I thought someone would comment that it looks like a rear spoiler on a car

It may not be a matter of not asking for help so much. I have a 85 year old mate with a windscreen wiper seat mover that tried with a K8055 unsuccessfully for years, until he found JRKS via me, of which I helped set him up in less than an hour. Boom, motion with ease.
The "other" software has brought a lot of us to the DIY sim group, now as you see, thank to the efforts of the fellas here, we have new software which is proving itself over and over better. We have software developers willing to listen and make changes to help us all. Not just push us into the direction of....my way or no way.
Many of members here and there have tossed in the towel so to speak, so dont worry. People like myself help by re-directing others back to where the help is, again.
More choice of controllers are available and we dont have certain people here bagging them and trying to push us to a board(s) that are expensive, hard to build, a nightmare to control, etc.

Yes , the table can be a look of a rear wing, give it some paint perhaps.
Otherwise, well done, you are moving sim wise, finally.

Ok some profile refining in need but to finally see motion, well done, to me the motors need more juice then they are getting, you spot quiet a wallow when the roll throw back and forth. But could be they way your profile is.
Dam good effort mate , lovely to see my old winch idea still getting sims moving on the cheap, supply enough amps and they will toss you out of it, quiet easily. Been there, been tossed from seat to floor, not funny.

Thanks Rob. What settings would you recommend altering?

Rene', Here are pics of my projects. They are Namco Magic Edge Simulators. Inside will be the DCS A-10C cockpit builds. A lot of operating system has be done. Hydraulics are in work. My travels in aviation keep me away from what is really my heart desires. Recently the third simulator was purchased and next week to jumpseat to pickup the remaining control hardware and later to drive and get the simulator. Lots for groovy game gear boards, EPIC boards and Comtrol PCI card to make the most realistic motion simulator posible. Soon will be need of SimTools with DCS plugin to get the simulators in motion for testing.

OH DROOOOOL................!

Ok! Thanks for the invite. Everyone continue on.

I had disassembled the 2DoF platform to use the parts on my 6DoF project. But I found that the winches were a different size which put my movements off on the 6DoF platform. So I purchased the matching type of winches for that project and decided to rebuild my 2DoF platform. I also did not want to share controllers on one platform, it was easier to make two platforms than make modifications to the 6DoF to swap out controllers. The 6DoF will be for flight and this one is for driving.

Excuse the plywood, it is for prototyping purposes. I am going to make the base layer out of steel as soon as I have the bugs worked out.

I added a third layer (base layer) so I could add traction loss. The third winch motor works good for traction loss but this axis really would benifit from a faster motor. I might replace the winch with one of my old 24v wheel chair geared motors running in order to increase the reaction time. @SeatTime has a great idea using chain drive for traction loss and these motors would be perfect for that. I also have experience with chain drive on my DIY CNC router table. Here are the pictures of the prototype base platform for traction loss. It is pretty crude but quick to put together.

The universal direction castors mounted under the second layer platform, they ride on a steel plate attached to the base platform (plywood):



The entire rig:



The connection method for the third winch is, again, crude but quick to set up and does work pretty well.






Note the green goop to cover the exposed contacts on my HP 700GB server power supplies. I know myself, I would have dropped something metal across those contacts if I had not protected them
The goop is liquid electrical tape, just brush it on (or dribble a lot like I did, lol) and in an hour complete protection.

Everything for layer two of the platform is mounted on that layer, the winches, Arduino, Chinese Moto Monster, and power supply.



An action video will be forthcoming.

I spent the entire day playing Asseto Corsa and No Limits Roller Coaster today!

+1 well done Historiker and thanks for these detailed pictures!
looking further seeing the video too