Motion Sim w/ Surge & Traction Loss

It may be a good idea to just try a good car battery with a charger hanging off it. Just to prove the theory.

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12V 40A

@madgino
Am I understanding correctly that you replaced a quantity of 2 DPS-600PB power supplies with a a single 12V 40A shown above and have no problems?

@Brett - that's correct.

Completed building my sim now, however some electrical parts have to be changed. The power supplies just aren't good enough at handling the high current spikes and shut down so I'll replace them and I want to change the connections on the JRK'S as they are too small for decent cabling really unless I use relays. I'll rewire the system in the next couple weeks once I've done those bits

Replaced the wheels at rear as it the motor couldn't seem to handle the friction with those castor wheels, so modified the same brackets and changed the wheels to inline skate wheels with bearings. Now motor moves the traction loss with ease which solved my biggest issue

Sim is sitting on a trailer right now and I'm about to make my 400km drive home with it and try to break it down to fit in the room it will live in

Small video of it working yesterday, little bit was changed from that video but gives a idea where it's at

Nice job but I suggest you get a video with less movement in the camera and more of the sim
What power supplies were you using?
DO NOT USE RELAYS!!!!! JRks can switch at 1-2ms, but more like 20ms. Relays switch at 50-ms to 100ms and you may upset the operation of the jrk.
Dunno why you want bigger leads on them for. I run 10 amp 240v cable and it does fine, no melting of wires or anything. And thats spiking motors at 40 amp spikes

Oh and I suggest stiffen up the frame, thats a lot of bounce

I'll look into it but I'm almost certain none of the frames are flexing. There's so much bracing in every layer more then anyone else's I've seen

I think it's more the fact it was set at 70mm ctc in the video was playing around assuming you are meaning by his feet?

There's a bar running along the whole layer now each side which stops any flexing

I'll let you know for sure but so far when using it, it seems perfectly fine. I haven't seen any issues with the rift

I'll let you know after more time using it. I haven't used it enough to really give a complete positive report

Oh sorry now I see what you mean by bounce

Just had a small wiggle with the sim and relised what you were meaning now with the bounce is the movement of the linear rails up and down. They do have some Allen key things on the side so I'll have a look to see if that helps with that to get rid of the slop

Otherwise I can put a bit of a block in to stop it doing it between the surge and traction loss layers

Drove it home yesterday and it's all set up in spare room now

Just had a small play and it's working ok but now I've gotta learn how to set up my profiles properly so I'll look into how to do that in the tuning center. All I've been doing so far is capturing and saving but I think I'm meant to tweak the forces manually from there, is that right?

Yep I've seen and read that. I played with Assetto Corsa and captured the values after driving around for a bit cleanly, not all top sure how large I should be changing the values once paused but guess i won't know until I try all sorts.

Do you generally change the values much from what gets captured?

Do people share their tuning center pics for games etc or is it different for each rig too much?

Wouldn't it give me a gauge of the sorta figures I should be aiming for?

Yeah I tried doing it last night but as soon as I turn them all on my psu shuts down. Ill try out the battery in parallel to see how that goes

What size battery do people use generally? I assume they don't actually use much so I could get away with a 18ah sla or such? And just have a charger on battery too as well?

hi there, I am using a 100AH battery at the moment, also had used a 45 AH one that also worked perfect, when I start my computer and simulator a batterycharger of 10 amps will keep charging it.