DIY FFB Steering wheel (MMosFFB ) (In Progress)

May be a motor itself with brushes contacts ets. Don't know. Have you tested with smth else apart of spring test?

Hiya well both Controllers seem to work ( I Think 0ne is Leonardo based and the other STM I can run all the tests but my problem is it wold be nice to know what each test was supposed to do ( sortta Text explanation ) but im looking at the wrong places to find this info ... It does Linearity and the steps test ( no Graphs yet im still working that out .. Most You tube stuff does not have test subtitles and being deaf kinda makes it hard to fill in the gaps sometimes )

Encoders seem fine But I only have 4.7K ohm pull ups so maybe I need 10K ... but the trace on my portable scope looked nice and clean and rail to rail so will need to check connections again tomorrow .. Always appreciate feedback excuse the Pun Cheers

If your pull ups are from 5v from Arduino and from 3.3v from stm32 too, you should put only 220 ohms only but not 4,7k.

Wannabeflyer, have a look. https://www.isrtv.com/forums/topic/8286-fanatec-review/#comment-75034

Step test kind of checking the speed of wheel with its response on change of direction corresponding to default 300ms signals to turn on both directions. How sharp it reacts etc. How far goes for this time. Depends on wheel base settings also. The force linearity you can find description in link above.

Hi @Sieben once again im in your debt sir that link content looks like just what I needed so its converted to PDF format for ned time reading ...Yeah sad I know but i'll blame you guys in the nicest way ...Cheers Sieben

Thank you!
Good luck with your project! It is very promising.

Hi
I want to build steering wheel using arduino leonardo, bts7960, encoder and 775 motor. Everything except force feeddback works. I tried to use old and new ebolzmagy's firmware but FFB in noone works. Do u know why FFB doesnt work? Maybe its motor fault?

I don't know anything about ebolzmagy's firmware, can you post the guide you used to wire up the system and a photo of your wiring. I can't help without that information.
One thing I can advise is to double check that you have exactly followed the wiring guide.

EMC works fine. You made smth wrong out there. Put the constant slider to max. It do have sense too. But to be clear, we need more information, regarding what Alexey said already)
Bay the way, what markings does your bts chips have. It must be smth like GAG612. With GAG523 it is not the best one. Also, rotate the wheel while the game loads, to 90 deg both sides. Also you can check does it work ot not using the wheelcheck from iracing. Or simply by checking the soft locks on both sides of the wheel.

I used this wiring. I tested wheel in iracing and ETS 2 but FFB doesnt work. Yes I have chip GAG523. I double checked everything in wiring. Do I have to buy bts7960 with better chip?

The wiring is for new emc, not for the old one,(0.9) if smth too. But might not be the case, if you try both.
Yes, gag523 is rubbish anyway and should be replaced. So it may be the only reason.May be. Don't give up and continue to make it work.

Unfortunately i couldn't find GAG612, but I found other types of BTS7960 chips:
-GBK629
-GAA426
-GBT827
Which one should I choose?

Well don't know, try 629.

(That should be ok. Checked.
https://ru.aliexpress.com/item/33007717464.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.3da233edJj4NAu
https://www.ebay.com/p/913339811?iid=192001422696)

P.S. Don't know, but guess even 523 should show something even if they are wrong.

I’d take a look at the settings. I had the same problem at first with ebolz firmware, but I had just missed setting the min/max PWM and PWM mode. It can be set in different ways nowadays, make sure you choose PWM+dir (I think). I can check tomorrow if you’d like. Could you post some screen dumps of your settings?

No pwm+dir for BTS drivers please (on default)
Bay the way, reduce the min force(emc 09) to zero. It works vise versa somehow. If it is off, in game there is full ffb.

Yeah, missed a few numbers there.

2PWM+1dir is the way to go for BTS.

The min/max force is quite logical.
Min force sets the minimum pulse width for ffb. It helps compensate sluggish motors. If your wheel doesn’t communicate small details it might be a good idea to set this higher than zero. Mine ended up somewhere around 5% I think. Don’t set it too high though, you’ll lose the details.
Max force: 100%! (If your rig isn’t “too strong”)

Bts are used with pwm +/-, no pwm dir. That's another story why to use this mode with bts. ) If anybody required that at all.

No i mean that with emc 09, the old version, if anybody use it, the min force should be 0. Believe, or try yourself, but that's so there. Many, if not all, depends in constant slider. And main gain only. With multipliers to them too)

If you just pull EN-pins high the BTS will give you unwanted inertia.
Connecting them to “dir” pin 8 will make the BTS discharge between each pulse. This will give you the possibility to freewheel and set inertia as you want.
Just pulling them high is the “old” way.

I believe you 7! Haven’t run the old versions lately..

Chris, i believe this is not what is called pwm +dir mode, with new emc. Just some extra layout variation to pwm+/- . Pwm&dir has another wiring and even definitions.

Does anyone know the original (full) source of this image? I can only find it here, cropped...

I have a working MMOs, IBT_2 setup running on a DIYMORE/DIYMROE STM32F4VGT6 board , with the wiring for the 'EN' Pins permanently held high but this means that the motor does not freewheel (effectively the motor is shorted when not being driven, so it creates drag)

All of the other wiring diagrams I can find show it wired like this as 'correct' but I read a post somewhere stating this problem exactly and 'That is the old way to connect' but did not reference the 'new' way.
From what I can tell, I need the 'H-Bridge' wiring setup with the EN pins wired to PE8/PE10 (PWM 1N/PWM 2N) instead of permanently held high so that it disables the H-Bridge outputs and allows freewheeling. Is that right? Certainly the image here seems to indicate that the EN pins are controlled by the STM32. I don't want to smoke my H-Bridges or motor!