6DoF sim rig

G'day folks! Just decided to have a crack at building a 6DoF sim rig. I'm making a base and bolting an existing stationary sim rig to it. I have no experience, but have a mechanical background and roughly understand the concept. I'm hoping to fill in the blanks with the brains trust here as my weakness is programming the 3 arduino R3's and getting it all to talk nicely with Sim Tools. I still have a lot to do, like 3D printing mounts for the rotary encoder boards, and making final servo arms. I'm using 6x 24VDC 500W ebike motors with 10:1 inbuilt gearboxes, being driven by 3x 100A H bridge drivers controlled by 3x arduino R3's and AS5600 rotary encoders for positioning.
I Plan on supporting the "cradle" on 3x 700N gas springs to reduce the static load on the motors. (Don't look too closely at the welds. If ya squint, it's mint!).

If anyone has any tips, I'd be glad to hear them. See pics below...

I looked at these gear motors a while back

the gearbox ratio was about 9:1 which is not that much of a reduction

a ratio of 30:1 to 50:1 would be a better match

they are a neat package, hope they work for you

Thanks for the reply. Good to be noticed

I found someone on YouTube that has made a 6DoF rig using the 35oW version of these motors, I'm hoping upping the grunt with 500W motors will help.
I did see that 30-50:1 is the sweet spot. I'm hoping offsetting the weight of the cockpit and pilot with gas struts might help compensate for the shortfall in torque. Fingers crossed I guess...

I have a few different ideas that might help, like using deep cycle car batteries to run the rig to allow for high current spikes and float them with a 24V battery charger. I dove into this project before I found this resource, so hopefully I can get it running without too much re-engineering...

Just trying to 3D print the encoder mounts at the moment...

I'll keep ya posted!

it might be possible to add another reduction gearbox on the output if you have issues - with a small chain or just 2 gears

I use 2x batteries for current buffering - massive amount of amps available ! (more than enough to start a truck engine !)